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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.

sundae summarizing

Sundae Summarizing

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

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Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

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.

summarizing with sequence words

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

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Develop an Opinion About a Nonfiction Topic

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

the authors viewpoint vs my viewpoint

The Author’s Viewpoint vs. My Viewpoint

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

movies and main ideas

Movies and Main Ideas

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

paragraph frame summer vacation

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

priya and the penny

Priya and the Penny

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

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Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

finding louie alternate ending

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

a chickens life cycle

A Chicken's Life Cycle

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

all about wangari maathai

All About Wangari Maathai

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

visualize the scene

Visualize the Scene

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

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Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

barack obama crossword and trivia

Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

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The Ocean

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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Metaphors in Context

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

examining authors purpose in a fictional text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

picture book pumpkin creations

Picture Book Pumpkin Creations

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.

make a summary butterflies

Make a Summary: Butterflies

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

who was martin luther king jr

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

the lion and the mouse fable

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Popular fiction throughout the ages colors the way people speak. In this short lesson, students will read a myth and non-fiction paragraph in order to identify and define words that come from mythology.

myths and man

Myths and Man

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

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Map a Story

Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!

traditional literature story mapping

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building  mini version of it!

to build a fire

To Build a Fire

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

making inferences in a fictional text

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

What happens when a pompous rocket starts to cry? Develop your child's reading skills with this classic children's story by legendary writer Oscar Wilde.

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