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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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