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

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

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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.

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