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Here is a worksheet to help students practice summarizing. Read four nonfiction paragraphs about trains, highlight or underline important information, and write a title for the passage related to its main idea. Then create a summary.
This series of worksheets will run you through the basic process of forming and writing a summary of text that you are exploring. Make sure to pay attention to all the details along the way and if something seems out of place, go back and reread what is unclear.
These worksheets provide a structured approach to breaking down complex texts, enabling students to identify the main ideas and supporting details. By incorporating reading comprehension strategies such as predicting, questioning, clarifying, and evaluating, summarizing worksheets encourage students to engage with the text actively.
Browse Scholastic's summary worksheets to teach students how to summarize main ideas in texts and passages. Explore summary lesson plans for all grades!
A summary of a story recounts it in a succinct way and includes only the most important information, ideas, or details. It may include supporting details to the main idea as well as the sequence of the story (e.g. beginning, middle, end or chronological order).
Here is a worksheet to help students practice summarizing. Read four nonfiction paragraphs about trains, highlight or underline important information, and write a title for the passage related to its main idea. Then create a summary.
It is important to learn how to summarize different types of texts such as internet articles, magazine articles, chapter books, short stories and more. Summaries provide a shorten version of what was read or what took place. Here is a graphic preview for all of the summary worksheets.
Summarizing teaches students how to identify the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read. Summarization strategies can be used in almost every content area.
If you’re just starting with summary skills, then consider this series of reading comprehension passages. Each of these worksheets on summarizing focuses on finding the central idea in either an informational or narrative text.
Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.