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

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

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.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

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.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

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

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

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

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.

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.

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

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

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

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.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

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.