Tips and Activity Ideas to help you teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students how to summarize fiction and nonfiction / informational texts

Teaching Summarizing So Students Actually Understand

Teaching summarizing seems like it should be easy. When 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students summarize, they don’t have to come up with any of their own ideas – all they have to do is briefly tell the most important parts of a book or reading passage that they read. Sounds pretty easy…but it’s not. Teachers have all sorts of …