Summarizing Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
This resource includes everything you will need to practice characters with your students! I’ve included THREE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EACH PASSAGE for you to easily differentiate in your classroom!
$8.00
Product Description
How many times have you read a student summary or response with irrelevant details? Summarizing is a critical skill for readers because summarizing important information allows students to make connections and integrate information efficiently. These Summarizing Passages were written specifically to sharpen students’ summarizing skills. Graphic organizers provide students with a practical summarizing process to follow. Short passages and questions help students learn how to “check all the boxes” of a great summary! With 3 differentiated levels for each of my 10 passages, your students will have the practice they need to write great summaries in no time!
You’ll Love:
● Reliable and ready-to-go resources to give kids more practice with summarizing
● Spending less time planning your centers, guided reading, and small group instruction
● Meeting students where they are – with 3 different levels, everyone feels challenged
What You Get:
Leveled Passages
● 10 differentiated fiction passages
● 3 levels of differentiation per passage
● Word count and Lexile levels recorded in the top left corner of each passage
Graphic Organizer
● Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then graphic organizer – a graphic organizer with a clear process for summarizing
Four Short-Answer Questions Per Passage For Students To:
● Complete a summary graphic organizer
● Write a summary based on the text
● Identify errors in a summary
● Identify the correct summary
● Critique a summary and give advice to make it better
Detailed Answer Keys
● Detailed exemplar responses for each question set
Digital Option for Use With Google
● Option to go 100% paperless with this resource
Ideas for Use:
● Small group instruction and intervention for struggling students
● Independent practice for a skills refresh
● Whole group instruction for a reteach or extra practice
● Guided reading rotations
● Morning work
● Homework
● Summative & formative assessments
Why Teachers Like You LOVE This Resource:
“This is such a HARD, HARD, HARD skill for our students to master. This is great practice. And the differentiated passages make it so WONDERFUL”, –Angela C.
“Another great unit for teaching summarizing. We had done previous work on main idea, and this unit gave us some fresh new passages to dig deeper and include the main idea and details in writing summaries.” -Paige S.
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See my blog post with free resources to teach Summarizing Fiction HERE.
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Want more crucial reading skills practice for your entire class? ➜ Click HERE to see The Complete Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions Bundle.
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Give Students More Practice With Fiction Skills ➜ Check Out My Other Differentiated Resources
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• Text Evidence – Explicit Details: Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Figurative Language Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Characters Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Making Inferences Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Paired Passages | Paired Texts Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Context Clues and Vocabulary Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Point of View Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
• Story Elements Differentiated Reading Passages and Questions
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