Summarize nonfiction

Free Nonfiction Retelling Chart - using M.U.S.H. - This Reading Mama

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

Some of the best ways I've found to help students summarize their learning for the primary classroom. Read more to snag a FREE resource to help you!

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.

Teaching students how to summarize nonfiction texts can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, with the use of some colored pencils and a handy nonfiction summary graphic organizer, my students were doing it with confidence...and yours can, too! Summarizing Power Writing a concise, yet descriptive summary is an important skill upper elementary students need to learn.

Today I'll share with you tips for teaching nonfiction summarizing as well as resources (and freebies) you can use with your 2nd and 3rd grade students

Does summarizing seem so much harder for your students than it should be? I hear ya - and I'm here to help! Here's the lowdown on why students struggle and how you can make those struggles a thing of the past.

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

Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ... write too much or not enough do not capture the most important ideas copy word for word from the text do not…

Does summarizing seem so much harder for your students than it should be? I hear ya - and I'm here to help! Here's the lowdown on why students struggle and how you can make those struggles a thing of the past.