Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Get a summary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition timeline with this quick reference sheet for kids.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Learn how sand dunes form, and a little bit about desert formations like yardangs as well, in this science summary sheet.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

'Tis the season for learning! Test your child's understanding of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and fill out this plot summary chart.

Students learn how to find the five-number summary and create a box and whisker plot for given data sets.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write an opinion piece. Students are tasked with writing a review of a book or movie of their choice, making sure to include a summary, their opinion, and supporting reasons.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.