Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

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

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

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

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.