The Key Points section on the Super Summarizer role sheet in grade four was removed from the Literature Circles Response Log sheet. The written summaries showed a marked improvement from grade four. Summaries tended to focus on the main ideas in their reading and were more concise. Several examples to illustrate this improvement follow:

This was about a couple of dogs and the Monroes. Pete is one of the Monroe's and under his bed is really messy. Uncle Harold is Howie's friend. He isn't really his uncle. Howie's uncle found a notebook under Pete's bed. Howie wants to be an author when he grows up. Uncle Harold is a writer. Howie wants to be just like him.

When the man was walking with the bear, he was looking at the stars. He fell into a ditch. You can't look up all of the time.

Every part of the wedding went wrong and Ms. Ribble tried to trample Harold and George. Before Monday, Harold and George got a crazy idea. They were going to hypnotize their teacher.

Martha is being a brat. She is complaining about everything and now she's a ghost!

We have met Luke. He is not so fond of the boat. He even thought his room was a bathroom.

Bob and Joan first meet a boy who thinks he is a rat. They named him Roger and he has no manners. They let him stay for the night and he rips up the bed. Bob thinks he is an orphan and he is going to take him to City Hall.

Harriet Tubman was a slave so she helped a lot of other slaves on her way to the Underground Railroad.

They were trying to get the formula when it dropped. Howie went to see what happened and the formula bottle broke and the formula was everywhere. Howie made Delilah look like a fool in his story. Now Delilah isn't talking to Howie. What will happen next?