Summarizing activities

Need some fresh ideas on how to teach summarizing so your students actually understand it? Come & grab my best tips and tricks that you can use right away!

Five summarizing mini-lessons to provide students practice to understand which details are essential to include when providing a summary.

I've got one more summarizing idea to share with you! Did you see my other posts about writing summaries HERE and HERE?

Teaching summarizing? Try using story element examples. When kids learn to pick them out, writing a summary is easy.

Here are four books you can use when teaching your students to summarize using the Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST) strategy.

Summarizing text is such an important skill. Students learn how to summarize text as early as kindergarten by being asked to retell or recount familiar parts of a story, including key details. By fifth grade, students are not only asked to summarize text, but they also need to identify the theme of the story as

Today I am dusting off the old blog and stopping in for a visit! I am so excited to share my new summarizing unit with you. My kids love summarizing with SWBST (somebody, wanted, but, so, then) and

Teachers, are you looking for summary anchor chart, graphic organizers, writing activities, modeled writing, and ideas to help your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students master the art of writing summaries? This blog post includes different ways to teach summarizing to help you differentiated instruction for your upper elementary students. Click to read the blog post and scoop up some summary freebies, too!

Teaching summarizing can be challenging when students lack core skills. This strategy shows how to teach summarizing by scaffolding fundamental skills.

Teaching summarizing can be fun! In this post, we break down how to teach kids to summarize fiction, including ways to practice this skill.