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ELAR 4.7(D)
retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
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Summarizing Graphic Organizer
A chart to practice using the SWBST strategy to write a summary for a fictional piece of text.
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Design Your Own Book Cover Worksheet
A worksheet that encourages students to create a book cover including a blurb on the back.
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Reading Response Templates - Complete Journal
A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.
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Reading Response Template – Summarizing
A reading response template for students to use to summarize a piece of text.
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Summarizing a Fiction Text - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer to help students summarize a fiction text.
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Comprehension Strategies – Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
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#SUMitUP Summary Activity
Summarize fictional text through this whole-class station activity.
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Reading Response Template - Personal Review
A reading response template for students to write a personal review of a piece of text.
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Comprehension Paper Fortune Teller
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
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Grade 4 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 4 "What's Buzzing?" magazine.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Summarizing
A 14-slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of summarizing.
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Comprehension Keys Board Game
A fun comprehension strategy board game for students to play during literacy rotations.
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Research Skills Worksheets - Note-Taking
A set of 6 worksheets to help students identify key facts, details, and vocabulary when researching information.
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International Women's Day Gender Ground Rules – Comic and Activity
A comic that shows an example of a gender stereotype.
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Read Across a Story Template
Practice summarizing a fictional text with this flipbook template.
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Halloween Bulletin Board Set – Wrapped Up in a Good Book
Download a printable Halloween bulletin board set for your classroom library or school library. Showcase your students’ insightful book reviews with our Halloween-themed classroom display.
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Storytelling Finger Puppets Template
A set of 15 finger puppets that can be used to spark the imagination for creative writing or to perform puppet shows.
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Movie Versus Book - Template
A template where students compare and review a movie and a book and construct a 3-D popcorn box.
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Guided Reading Groups - Retelling a Text Template
Use this template during a guided reading session for a scaffold to help your students retell a text.
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QR Code Reading Comprehension Strategy Question Cubes
A set of QR code question cubes to use when working with reading comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Summarizing
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of summarizing.
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Summarizing
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarizing.
