Summarizing Teacher Resources

How did the television change people's lives? Learners consider the question as they complete their storyboards about the invention of the TV, adding visual elements along the way. Then, they participate in a peer review to offer and...

Insert text box here. Learners use index cards to create their own informational text boxes. The text box includes information about an insect in the rainforest. Scholars also complete the draft of their research science journal entries.

Students define a summary and discuss the elements of writing a summary. In this summary writing instructional activity, students take notes while reading a book and use to write a summary.

Young scholars read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and write summaries for the text. In this summary and novel analysis lesson, students read the text and write summaries for four chapters at a time.

In this language arts worksheet, learners will complete an accordion book to summarize a story. Students are provided with the directions to complete the book and prompted to write about the beginning, middle, and end of their selected...

In this literacy worksheet, learners summarize the events in chapter 9 and take the questions as sources of remembering the events described.

In this plot summary instructional activity, students are given several prompts to assist in developing a summary of the first chapter of The Outsiders.

In this literature worksheet, students write a concise summary of the book, Charlotte's Web, inside a picture of a pig on the lines provided.

Students, while in the computer lab visiting the National Geographic Kids website, fill out a checklist of unimportant/redundant information, look for important events and ideas and search for the author's main idea and supporting...

Here is a way to build your pupils' public speaking abilities. The lesson describes a reader's report chair, which is used each week by a student who has just finished reading a book. The featured reader sits in the chair and talks about...

After reading a book on their own, pupils prepare an oral report on the book,  and sit in the "Readers Report Chair" when giving the report to the class. They are taught to briefly summarize the book by talking about one of two...

Youngsters practice summarizing and retelling the story of The Three Little Pigsin their own words as well as the original version of the book. They color the pictures and cut out a similiar house on their own as well.

Throughout history, the growth of big cities has resulted in the destruction of ecosystems. In the case of Chicago, IL, a grassland that was once home to bison, deer, wolves, and foxes quickly became a booming city of over three million...

Playing team sports is about more than just scoring the most goals or winning the most games. Read this passage with your class and learn how athletes build character as members of a team. When finished, individuals identify the main...

Have your class summarize a reading with drawings. This page provides six boxes shaped like photographs, each with small space for pupils to write a caption. A great way for students to process what they've read, use the resource for...

The animal kingdom is full of interesting organisms that have unique ways of surviving. Children read about different insects that have special tools for building homes and protecting themselves. When finished, learners identify the main...

Introduce your young readers to the book review. Groups of writers practice the basic steps of writing a book report and complete an Accordion-Book Summary activity. The lesson includes book report basics and directions to make...

Surviving winter. Pupils begin reading on page 18 of The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Inventions and sketch how the people used animal skin clothing to survive the winter. Readers complete a main idea graphic organizer...

Strap on those backpacks, it's time to travel through history with this literature unit based on the first four books of The Magic Tree House series. While reading through these fun stories, children create story maps, record...

Speak up and listen up. Scholars participate in a speaking and listening mid-unit oral assessment. They discuss whether their rules to live by should be a personal choice or made into a law, and then they complete an exit ticket to...

Put on a happy face. Using an interesting resource, pupils read an informational text about Hawaii's endangered Happy Face Spider. Next, they participate in a jigsaw discussion to find the gist of the article. 

Scholars participate in two activities that teach them to identify the main idea and key supporting details in informational text. Partners create a visual that reflects the main idea and key supporting details in an informational text...

Students summarize an article in this lesson. Students observe the teacher summarizing a short paragraph. They then look at a National Geographic KIDS and read an article. They use a highlighter to highlight important facts to be...

Pupils summarize a non-fiction selection in this lesson. Students review the rules of summarization: delete trivial information, delete repeated information, superordinate items and events, and find or compose statements that covers...