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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.