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Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Start Your Engines! It's time to teach your students how to summarize fiction text as you race down Summary Raceway. 

Summary Raceway: Summarizing Fiction

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

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

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Story Mountain: Realistic Fiction Graphic Organizer

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Writing Conclusions for Informational Text

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Argument Essay Mentor Text: Sugary Drinks

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

Video Games: Nonfiction Text

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Writing an Introduction for Informational Text

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

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 lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Main ideas and Details

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Realistic Writing

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

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

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.

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

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

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

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Discovering Details

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Reading Response Letter Interactive

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

Take a closer look at formatting! Learning how nonfiction text is formatted helps students understand the underlying structure of the information.

Understanding Nonfiction Formatting

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

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