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Showing Results for summarizing fiction texts

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Themes Between Fiction Texts

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Topics Between Fiction Texts

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Topic & Theme Between Fiction Texts

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

Head to Head Fiction: Themes

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Problems and Solutions

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Visuals

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Fan Fiction

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

Simple Fiction Summary

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

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Fiction

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Creative Writing: Science Fiction

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Fiction

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

Writing a Fiction Summary: The Wind in the Willows

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Fan Fiction Finales: Alternate Story Endings

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Glossary: Sentence Structures for Summarizing

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Close Reading Checklist

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Making Inferences to Interpret Fiction

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Sentence Structures for Summarizing

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Scripts and Plays

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Inferences & Evidence

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Sub-Genre Specific Traits Across Texts

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Fiction to Fact

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

Help your students' favorite characters come to life in new adventures as student writers draft new endings to their favorite stories.

Fan Fiction Finales

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Glossary: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

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