Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

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

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

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

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

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.