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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

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Writing Science Fiction

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

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 3-4 sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Story Mountain: Realistic Fiction Graphic Organizer

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Note-Taking from a Text

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Realistic Writing

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Fall Resolution Leaves

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

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