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.

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

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

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.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

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

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

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

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

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

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

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

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

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

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

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