One-sentence game. After a film, a chapter or a school day, try to sum it up in one sentence that answers three questions: what did they want, what did they do, what happened? Then add one question the story leaves open.

Before chapter 3. Was the ant kind?

The answer. The fable doesn't say. The ant was prepared, and the grasshopper was not, but the ant had plenty and shut the door. People have argued about this for centuries. In 1668 Jean de La Fontaine told it as a cicada and an ant, and some later writers took the grasshopper's side.

About the text. It is one of Aesop's fables, public domain, retold plainly here.

Pause to think. When is it right to share, even with someone who didn't plan ahead?

The grown-up layer. Summing up well means leaving things out on purpose. ReadQuest's Sheaf practises it; the four bookmarks (predict, question, clarify, sum up) are the four jobs of reciprocal teaching.