For most of my students, summarizing is a challenge, especially when it comes to identifying key details and boiling our summaries down to the most important information. More often than not, the text summaries students write are actually text retells, and they lose focus of what's important. So how do students 'boil it down,' and more importantly, how can we make it FUN? Becoming 'Summarizing Superstars' doesn't happen overnight, so it's always a challenge to come up with motivating tasks to practice summarizing - tasks that can potentially keep students motivated over the course of a few weeks! High-interest texts