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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

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

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

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

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

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Fall Resolution Leaves

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

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Writing About Reading Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Formatting Frenzy

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

Making inferences from texts about the Plains States, your students will learn how to read with a purpose! In this lesson, your students will practice important skills while developing knowledge of various states.

Papering the Plains States

In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library. 

Nonfiction Genres

Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Get your students excited about geography with a lesson on Earth's oceans. After reading two different texts, they'll be ready to dive right into ocean paragraph writing. 

Diving into Earth's Oceans

This lesson helps your ELs identify the role of coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences in nonfiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson to Nonfiction Genres. 

Compound Sentences in Nonfiction

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Help your ELs familiarize themselves with prepositional phrases as they search for supporting details in nonfiction texts. This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson. 

Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

Characters, settings, and events, oh my! In this lesson, students will dig deeper into each of these components and learn to provide specific details from their texts.

Tell Me More: Characters, Settings, and Events

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

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