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2nd - 7th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Educational Resources : Page 5

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Illustrating Cause and Effects Reading Log

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Chapter Bubbles

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

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

To Build a Fire

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9&ndash;18 of Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #2

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Re-imagining Narratives with Guest Characters

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19&ndash;25 of Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #3

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Vocabulary Cards: Elements of Fairy Tales

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Encourage critical thinking and support your students&rsquo; literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #5

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26&ndash;33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #4

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Vocabulary Cards: A Simple Summary

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

A Mad Tea Party

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

The Tinder Box

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

Summarize and Predict

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Vocabulary Cards: Retelling with Paragraph Frames

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Vocabulary Cards: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Re-imagining Dialogue with Guest Characters

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 your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details. 

What Happened?

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

Simple Summaries

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about nouns and practice retelling a story with a 5 W's graphic organizer. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Using the 5 W's

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2nd - 7th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Educational Resources : Page 5

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