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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Glossary: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

New Nonfiction Words Template

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

New Nonfiction Words Organizer

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Reread It!

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

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

Explore the physics at play in roller coasters with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Physics at Play: Roller Coasters

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Summarizing Informational Texts: Graphic Organizer

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Think, Jot, and Talk About Facts

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Retell Sentence Frames

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

What's This Page About?

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Pick a Page

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

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.

Facts, Facts, Facts

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.

Reading Partners Record!

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

Look at history! In this lesson, guide students through an exploration of the context, causes, and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad, and help them practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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