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.

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 exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Your students will be flexing their comprehension and explanation skills with this worksheet.

Learn how sand dunes form, and a little bit about desert formations like yardangs as well, in this science summary sheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!