Skill library: Summarizing

Welcome to the Storyworks Skill Library! Use the video below to introduce summarizing to your students. Then have them practice the skill on a story of their choice with our guided interactive activity. 

 

Essential Question: How can summarizing help you better understand what you read?

 

What is a Summary?

 Learn how to summarize in this interactive video.

Guided Interactive Activity

Use this interactive slide deck to guide your students through a summarizing journey.

Need a Printable PDF?

Download this evergreen activity to summarize any Storyworks story.

Top stories for teaching summarizing:

PAIRED TEXTS The Great Stink In 1858, London had a big, smelly problem: Its largest river was overflowing with poop.
NONFICTION The Pigeon Hero of World War I The incredible true story of Cher Ami, the bird that saved nearly 200 American soldiers during World War I
PAIRED TEXTS
NONFICTION Monster of the Deep For centuries, no one believed the giant squid was real—until scientists made a shocking discovery.
NONFICTION Saving America’s Wolves The story of the amazing comeback of a species from near-extinction
PLAY Girl. Fighter. Hero. During a terrible war, Sybil Ludington takes on a daring deed to save the country she loves. Will she survive?