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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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Glossary: Retelling a Fiction Story

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

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Glossary: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Retelling a Fiction Story

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Vocabulary Cards: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Glossary: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to review or teach all about retelling a story with your ELs. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Goldilocks and the Beginning, Middle, and End.

Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Sundae Summarizing

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

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

Write a Simple Summary

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

The Crab that Played with the Sea

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Theme, Cause, and Effect Reading Log

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Making Predictions and Summarizing: Tell Me What You Think

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Weekly Reading Response

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

Summaries and Predictions

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Main Ideas and Details

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while they have fun.

Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears

This literature-based lesson teaches students about answering key questions and understanding a character's point of view. It'll have young readers roaring, thumping, and having tons of fun as they imitate story characters.

Put Me in the Zoo

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

Simple Summaries

This lesson provides teachers with an opportunity to teach students about reading stamina and assess student comprehension during independent reading.

Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension

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