Summary writing nonfiction

Teach your students to write organized paragraphs and essays using

Teach your elementary students about Summarizing Informational Text: A Simple Strategy to Write an Summary. Summarizing nonfiction text teaches them to determine the most important ideas in a text, ignore unimportant information & connect the main idea & key details of a text in a logical way. It also helps improve memory & comprehension of a text. Students will learn the main idea, important or key details, follow the text structure & putting it all together. (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade)

Blog post on Upper Elementary Snapshots about Finding Details and Writing Summaries. She uses a non-fiction text for this lesson. There are examples and anchor charts. There is also a link to a free article. Focused on fourth grade.

Learn three reading strategies you can teach your students that will help them summarize nonfiction.

Do your students need help summarizing informational text? Use the TAAMIO strategy to write great informational text summaries.

Year after year my students struggled with summaries, and then I started using this method for teaching summary writing. Eureka! I will never again teach this skill without this summary anchor chart.

Teach students to summarize nonfiction texts using this simple metaphor. This unique teaching strategy well as scaffolding for struggling readers in middle and high school.

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

Guided Writing for Summaries (Fiction) Anchor Chart