Summarizing Activities for Stories and Nonfiction
Summarizing practice across fiction and nonfiction, where students pick out the most important event or fact, turn their own writing into a summary, name main ideas and key words, and track characters, problem and solution.
- Grades
- Grades 2–3, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Strategies
- Topic
- reading, strategies
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This is a set of Summarizing Activities for students.
There are 5 pages for students to practice their summarizing skills.
These are great for small group, independent work, etc.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Identify the most important event or idea in a text
- State the main idea of a page in a sentence and a key word
- Identify the characters, problem and solution in a story
Teaching tips
- Most pages work with any book, so students need a story or nonfiction text on hand.
Skills covered
- Summarizing — restating a text or their own writing in a few words
- Main idea — naming the central idea of chosen book pages
- Story elements — recording characters, problem and solution
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- Summarizing
- Main idea
- Story elements
- Key words
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