Mastering Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Engage and empower your students in nonfiction text summarization with these comprehensive teaching slides. This resource is designed to equip students to effectively summarize nonfiction texts while establishing a clear connection between the main idea and key details. 

These teaching slides are accompanied by visually engaging graphics, interactive activities, and clear explanations to enhance students’ comprehension and engagement. With this resource, you can guide students toward becoming proficient nonfiction readers who can effectively summarize texts.

Ready-Made Lessons on Summarizing 

This 18-slide presentation addresses the following content:

• What is a summary?
• Summarizing
• Summaries should and should not
• Important vs. interesting
• Summary checklist
• When to summarize
• How to summarize
• Summarizing nonfiction (main idea + supporting details)
• Example

The slide deck also includes student activities to help students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts presented. These activities include:

• KWL Chart
• Turn and talk – think about a time you had to summarize a text. What did you struggle with? What did you excel in?
• A couple of ‘show what you know’ questions and answers.

Download and Learn Today!

This resource is available to download in Google Slides.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.