Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

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

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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

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

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

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.

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

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

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.

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

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.

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 on the same topic.

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.

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

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

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

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

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

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

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.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.