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Reading a Summary Like an Editor

Three short lessons on checking a summary against its source: a faithful one, one that stretches by dropping a caveat, and one that invents a claim the source never made.

For grown-ups, from what FidelityForge teaches children at Spark & Anvil.

  1. Lesson 1Faithful
  2. Lesson 2Stretched
  3. Lesson 3Invented
At the table · two or three people, 13 or older

Three summaries

You'll need: a short news article, paper and pens.

  1. One person reads the article and writes three one-sentence summaries: faithful, stretched and invented.
  2. Shuffle them. The others read the article and sort the three.
  3. For each, point to the line that proves it, or the caveat that was dropped.
  4. Swap who writes next time.

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