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.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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

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

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

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

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 half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

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.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

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.

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.

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

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