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.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.