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Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Summarize It

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Malala: Interview

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.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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

This Happened and Then

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

Paraphrasing Practice

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #3

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

The Paper Bag Princess

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

Main Topic Worksheet

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #4

Read a famous narrative poem, "Casey at the Bat," and practice reading comprehension skills at the same time in this printable mini-book worksheet.

Casey at the Bat

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Whoa, weather! Using technology as an aid, students will put their research skills to the test while learning about hurricanes.

Southeast and Gulf State Weather

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.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Frederick Douglass was an influential black man in U.S. history. In this lesson, the historical context is set for students so that they can conduct their own research on Frederick Douglass, using a graphic organizer and multiple sources, before writing an informational essay on him. Ideal for fourth and fifth grade students, this lesson plan not only gives students practice in research and essay-writing skills, it also has them exploring a fascinating part of our country's history.

Researching and Writing about Frederick Douglass

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Use this lesson to help students identify the elements of a fictional text while gaining more knowledge about parts of speech. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements.

Elements of Fairy Tales

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

Story Order: Case 2

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Writing a Fiction Summary: The Wind in the Willows

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

It's Time to Retell

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Weekly Reading Response

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Story Order: Case 1

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