⭐️ Build your students' confidence in summarizing informational text with this 3rd grade reading comprehension mini unit. Including digital slides, fun reading activities, interactive worksheets, graphic organizers, posters, cards, anchor charts, reading passages, questions, and exit tickets. It also includes recommended chapter and picture books that make it easier to teach students how to identify and summarize key ideas from a text.
This mini unit includes resources to introduce or review summarizing nonfiction to your 3rd graders. The unit is aligned to the Common Core standards. This aims to help young readers navigate and understand various texts more effectively. Engaging activities and interactive lessons make learning fun, ensuring that students not only grasp the concepts but also apply them in real-world reading scenarios. All activities are available in a print and digital format.
What is included?
✅ Google Slides/PowerPoint:
This is an interactive teaching presentation to use to teach the skills. The Google Slides and PowerPoints help you teach or review the skill. There are three versions included in both PowerPoint & Google Slides. The slide presentation is organized so that you can:
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Model the Skill
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Let's Try It! (Active Engagement)
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Independent Practice (Exit Slip)
Version 1: (Teaching Slides) These slides include transitions so that you can discuss the answers before they appear. The answers are also in the notes section of the slideshow.
Version 2: (Student Slides) These slides can be used if you are teaching virtually or if you want to use this as a review and have students complete on their own.
Version 3: (Answer Key) This slide has all the answers.
✅ Reading Comprehension Passages: There's a total of 5 Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions. The questions are all based on summarizing nonfiction.
✅ Graphic Organizers: The following graphic organizers are included:
The following informative summary posters are included: Summarizing Nonfiction, Summarizing: 5W & H, Summarizing, Summarizing SWBST, Informative Summary Checklist, Nonfiction Summary Checklist
✅ Summarizing Nonfiction Anchor Charts
✅ Reading Posters: The following informative summary posters are included: summary definition, summary illustration, building a summary, main idea & key detail, sentence starters, summary checklist, and "important or interesting?'
✅ Exit Slips: Each exit slip can be printed out 2 per page. The Exit Slips are also available in Google Forms. The exit slips are multiple choice or short response.
✅ Recommended Book List: Chapter books & picture books
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