Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

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

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.