Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Bundle: Practice Passages, PowerPoint, Worksheets

This nonfiction text summary bundle will help you teach students how to write a summary of a nonfiction text. It can be used for introduction or review of the skill. It includes a Summarizing Nonfiction PowerPoint, an interactive notebook activity, a poster, and 5 practice worksheets.

1. I recommend beginning with the 40-slide PowerPoint. It follows this format:

• Slides 1-5: Introduction & Key #1- Differentiate interesting and important.

• Slides 6-11: Key #2- Identify the text structure used by the author. This section includes 5 practice slides where students read a brief summary and identify the text structure.

• Slides 12-14: Key #3- Identify the main idea and important supporting details.

• Slides 15-23: How to write the Main Idea Sentence of a Summary (Follow this pattern: identify text, verb, topic, and big idea- several examples are provided.) An example main idea sentence: In this book (identify text), the author identifies (verb) several endangered animals (topic) and explores ways humans can work together to save these species from extinction (big idea).

• Slide 24: A List of Strong Verbs for your Main Idea Sentence

• Slides 25-39: Step by Step: Writing Entire Nonfiction Summaries Students read a nonfiction passage, write a main idea sentence (like the one above), and then identify 2-3 key details. Once they have these pieces identified, they write their nonfiction summary. This section includes FIVE practice passages.

This PowerPoint file also includes a 4-page PowerPoint Companion handout. This allows students to be completely engaged, writing on the handout and recording their summaries as you advance through the PowerPoint.

2. Once you complete the PowerPoint, students can create a matching Interactive Notebook entry. This entry includes the three keys, a list of strong verbs, and a passage that will give students another opportunity to practice writing a main idea sentence.

3. Finally, a set of 5 practice passages is included in this bundle. You get to choose whether you use the digital version that uses Google Slides, an Easel Activity, or the printable version. Students read each passage and write a 3-4 sentence nonfiction summary. Answer keys are included, along with a graphic organizer for students who need additional support in writing their summaries.

***PLEASE NOTE!!*** The passages in the printable packet are the same as the passages in the digital version for distance learning. I included both versions so that you could decide which format will work best for your students.

Here's what teachers like you have to say about using these summarizing nonfiction activities with their students:

⭐️ Joy E. said, "This product is amazing! My students were writing incredible paragraphs after working on this PowerPoint. Thank you for another amazing product."

⭐️ Heather W. said, "Your materials always are the most helpful for my students and consistently blow my principal away! Summarizing is a TOUGH skill and this was SUCH a great way to break it down and teach it! I am amazed at the quality of summaries my students are now producing!"

⭐️ Joline O. said, "Perfect for minimal preparation. Packed with specific standard-aligned content that was easy for my students and myself to navigate through. The main thing for me was that I gave my students a tool to use for writing that was not found in the writing curriculum we use. We practiced IVTB and they get it."

⭐️ Deanna H. said, "As always, Deb Hanson resources are spot on! This is such a hard skill, and having teaching/talking points by using this resource helped so much."

⭐️ Megan B. said, "I taught summary at the beginning of our year and it just didn't go well. I found this resource and used it the past couple of weeks to reteach the skill and the formula for a strong summary just really stuck with my kids! I am so thankful for this bundle and all these resources! It made my kiddos' lives easier and mine too!"

Are you looking for an additional summarizing nonfiction intervention resource? You might want to check out my set of Summarizing Nonfiction Trifolds/Lessons!

Click here to view the printable trifolds.

Click here to view the digital lessons.

**If you are also interested in collecting resources related to writing a fiction summary, click here: Summarizing Fiction Bundle: Somebody Wanted But So Then

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