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

Glossary: 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.

Chapter Summary

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

Summary High Five

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.

Make a Summary: Butterflies

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

Vocabulary Cards: A Simple Summary

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

Write a Simple Summary

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn how to create a simple summary, paying attention to the sequence in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Simple Summaries* lesson.

A Simple Summary

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

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

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

Start Your Engines! It's time to teach your students how to summarize fiction text as you race down Summary Raceway. 

Summary Raceway: Summarizing Fiction

Before students can respond to literature critically, they must have a strong grasp of big ideas and summary writing. Support your ELs in these foundational reading skills by introducing a three-sentence paragraph frame for summary writing.

Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Create a Story Summary Folder

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!

Summary to Speech

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.

Share Your Summary

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

Vocabulary Cards: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid

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

Big Idea Summary

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!

Chapter Summaries

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

Summer Summary

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

Nonfiction Text Summary Organizer

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

Simple Summaries

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

Short and Sweet Summaries

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

Storyboard Summary

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

Simple Summary Reading Log

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

Summary with Time Order Words

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

Say It With A Summary!

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

Three Sentence Summary

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

Simple Fiction Summary

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