Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or 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.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

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.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

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

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.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction 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.