Description
Empower your students to think critically and master the essential skill of summarizing with this complete, no-prep unit designed for Grades 4, 5, and 6. This comprehensive resource pack is a dynamic blend of digital and ready-to-print materials, offering a rich array of activities that guide students to master the skill of summarizing text.
What's Included:
1. Main Idea Introduction - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (24 slides) and ready-to-print PDF with ANSWERS
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Introduces the concepts of what is a Main Idea (main idea, supporting details)
2. Main Idea interactive notebook page - ready-to-print PDF (1 page) and ANSWERS
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Interactive notebook page for students as an anchor chart
3. Summarizing - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (28 slides) and ready-to-print PDF with ANSWERS
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A scaffolded lesson on the steps to summarize text
4. Ice Cream Matching - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (4 slides) and ready-to-print PDF
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Interactive class activity where students work in groups, read different text passages, and match the passage to the summary.
5. Summarizing extra practice worksheet - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (2 slides) and ready-to-print PDF (includes ANSWERS)
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More practice on Summarizing fiction and non-fiction text
6. Summarizing Articles - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (25 slides) and ready-to-print PDF with ANSWERS
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A scaffolded lesson on using the 5W1H strategy to summarize news articles
7. 5W1H graphic organizer - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (1 slide) and ready-to-print PDF template for students to use
8. Summarizing Articles Practice - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (1 slide) and ready-to-print PDF template
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More practice for students
9. Summarizing Articles Assessment - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (2 slides) and ready-to-print PDF template
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Full project outline (with rubric) for students to show knowledge, understanding, thinking, application, and communication.
10. Summarizing Quiz assessment - FULLY EDITABLE Google Slide presentation (2 slides) and ready-to-print PDF with ANSWERS
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Final written assessment piece
Why choose this resource?
Flexible Delivery: Use the Google Slides version for digital lessons or print the PDF for students to reference.
Skill-Building Focus: Helps students strengthen comprehension, writing, and critical thinking.
Year-Round Application: Summarizing strategies support reading, science, social studies, and more!
Ontario Language Curriculum Expectations:
A3.1 explain how the knowledge and skills developed in this grade support learning in various subject areas and in everyday life, and describe how they enhance understanding and communication
B1.3 identify the purpose and audience for speaking in formal and informal contexts, and use appropriate speaking strategies, including paraphrasing and restating, to communicate clearly and coherently
C1.1 read and comprehend various texts, using knowledge of words, grammar, cohesive ties, sentence structures, and background knowledge
C2.1 identify and explain prior knowledge from various sources, including personal experiences, that they can use to make connections and understand new texts
C2.2 identify a variety of purposes for engaging with texts, and select texts from diverse creators that are suitable for the purposes
C2.4 use strategies such as adjusting reading rate, visualizing, reading ahead, asking questions, and consulting references and other texts or sources of information, to monitor and confirm their understanding of various texts
C2.6 summarize the main idea of a text and the supporting details in sequence, and draw a well-supported conclusion
C2.7 explain how strategies such as visualizing, making predictions, summarizing, and connecting to their experiences have helped them comprehend various texts
C3.3 analyze various texts, including literary and informational texts, by identifying main and supporting ideas, sequencing the events of multiple plots, recording relevant information, and explaining cause and effect
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Total Pages
90 Google Slides, 101 PDF pages