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Showing Results for summarizing fiction texts

This lesson gives students a structure to help them summarize fiction texts. When they are skilled at summarizing, they will be more capable of exploring various fiction genres. Use it as a precursor to Fiction Genres Library Exploration. 

Basic Fiction Summaries

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Themes

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

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

What is Historical Fiction?

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers. Help your students make sense of these literary elements using dynamic organizers that draw comparisons between fiction texts.


Head to Head Fiction Reflections

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

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

Simple Fiction Summary

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

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

What is Fiction?

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

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Fiction Travel Brochure

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

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Every story has a problem and every problem has a solution! Use this lesson to help students identify the problem and solution in fiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Compare and Contrast Short Stories.

Problems and Solutions in Fiction

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills. Using T-charts and Venn diagrams, they'll analyze stories and explore different characteristics of fiction and nonfiction.

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Glossary: Problems and Solutions in Fiction

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

What is Science Fiction?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Vocabulary Cards: Problems and Solutions in Fiction

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

Describe the facts! This lesson teaches your ELs to identify adjectives and their important role as key details in informational texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Summarizing Nonfiction Texts.

Adjectives in Informational Texts

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: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

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

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Timeline Organizer

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Organize Your Questions

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