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3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Resources : Page 3

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building  mini version of it!

To Build a Fire

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Underline Key Details

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

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Who Was Junko Tabei?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Vocabulary Cards: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Theme, Cause, and Effect Reading Log

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

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

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Poetry Reflections Reading Log

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

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Malala: Interview

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

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

A Mad Tea Party

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

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

Vocabulary Cards: A Simple Summary

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

The Tinder Box

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Re-imagining Conclusions with Guest Characters

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

Simple Summaries

In this lesson, your students will practice writing about places important to them through poetry. By the time they are done, students will have become better writers and taken a walk down memory lane!

State Memories

Sugar skulls and fancy dress aren't all there is to the Day of the Dead. In this lesson students will learn about several societies that celebrate their dead, as well as some of the history behind the traditions of the Día de los Muertos.

Día de los Muertos: Traditions in History

Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired feelings of fear and morbid curiosity for over a century. With this lesson plan, your students will get a taste of the literary work while learning about the myth behind vampires.

Mythological Creature: Vampire

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

Put your students' imaginations to the test with this lesson on storytelling and creative writing. After reading some classic fairy tales, students will create their own using printed figures.

Mixed Up Fairy Tales

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

Frederick Douglass was an influential black man in U.S. history. In this lesson, the historical context is set for students so that they can conduct their own research on Frederick Douglass, using a graphic organizer and multiple sources, before writing an informational essay on him. Ideal for fourth and fifth grade students, this lesson plan not only gives students practice in research and essay-writing skills, it also has them exploring a fascinating part of our country's history.

Researching and Writing about Frederick Douglass

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