Reading Activities for Summary and Central Idea | Digital & Printable Reading Comprehension Toolkit

Description

These summary and central idea activities give you everything you need to teach summarizing with Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then and finding the central idea and supporting details, with digital and printable mini-lessons, anchor charts, reading passages, response sheets, and more.

Teaching Tools

• Summary chant and Central Idea chant, each with a teaching video, plus a central idea teaching video
• Summary teaching video with a Sneezy the Snowman read aloud, response sheet, and winter friend directed drawing
• Summary, central idea, and supporting details focus posters
• We Can Summarize and Pizza with a Purpose digital anchor charts
• Printable central idea and SWBST anchor charts
• Central idea and SWBST bookmarks
• Summary and central idea printables

Interactive Digital Activities

• Summarizing Fables, with a directed drawing
• Expanding with SWBST
• Brave Irene read aloud and activity
• The Curious Garden read aloud and activity
• All About the Details
• Find the Support
• Animal Articles central idea activity

Practice and Assessment

• 12 leveled reading passages
• Exit tickets for central idea and for writing a summary
• 4 summarizing and 4 central idea response sheets

What’s Included

• Printable and digital versions for Google Slides, Seesaw, and PowerPoint
• 200 pages

Digital Formats

• PowerPoint: files are in the zip folder
• Google Slides: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and save
• Seesaw: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and assign to your class

Differentiation

• Reading passages come in 3 levels, with 4 passages at each level

Good to Know

This is not a set of lesson plans. It is a set of activities to use whenever you focus on this skill, during a unit of study or all year as you read books in class. The activities are not book specific, and the video mini-lessons feature Katie and Amy teaching the skill.

Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Reading Comprehension Toolkit Bundle.

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