Fourth grade practiced summarizing stories in the library. First they read a story with a partner. They worked together to create an outline in a pyramid format. They then had to use their pyramid to write out their summary of the story.

Here is one.
The gingerbread man starts of as a little piece of rolled up dough. later he is a live treat and eleven men chase him all around the city up until they get to a zoo, where a fox says that he is not interested. the gingerbread man needs to escape the humans, so the fox takes him into water and eats him.