Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Your students will be flexing their comprehension and explanation skills with this worksheet.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.