Help students identify key information, organise their thinking and write clear, concise summaries with these three differentiated reading templates.
Summarising is an essential reading comprehension skill that requires students to distinguish between important information and less relevant details.
These structured templates guide students through the summarising process, encouraging them to identify main ideas, sequence important events, explore connections and express their understanding in their own words.
With three levels of support and challenge, teachers can select the template that best suits each student's learning needs.
Students will:
Identify the main idea or topic of a text.
Recognise important events, ideas and information.
Distinguish key information from minor details.
Sequence events and explore connections between ideas.
Organise their thinking before writing.
Write clear summaries using their own words.
Reflect on their understanding of a text.
What's included:
Explorer: A highly scaffolded six-step template focusing on the main topic, sequencing events and identifying the most important information.
Investigator: A five-step template encouraging students to identify key ideas, explain their importance, explore connections and construct a summary.
Analyst: A more challenging seven-step template requiring students to justify key information using evidence, explore relationships between ideas and reflect on their understanding.
3-page printable PDF digital download.
Perfect for reading groups, guided reading, independent comprehension tasks, literature studies and formative assessment.
Suitable for use with a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts – no specific book required.
Help students identify key information, organise their thinking and write clear, concise summaries with these three differentiated reading templates.
Summarising is an essential reading comprehension skill that requires students to distinguish between important information and less relevant details.
These structured templates guide students through the summarising process, encouraging them to identify main ideas, sequence important events, explore connections and express their understanding in their own words.
With three levels of support and challenge, teachers can select the template that best suits each student's learning needs.
Students will:
Identify the main idea or topic of a text.
Recognise important events, ideas and information.
Distinguish key information from minor details.
Sequence events and explore connections between ideas.
Organise their thinking before writing.
Write clear summaries using their own words.
Reflect on their understanding of a text.
What's included:
Explorer: A highly scaffolded six-step template focusing on the main topic, sequencing events and identifying the most important information.
Investigator: A five-step template encouraging students to identify key ideas, explain their importance, explore connections and construct a summary.
Analyst: A more challenging seven-step template requiring students to justify key information using evidence, explore relationships between ideas and reflect on their understanding.
3-page printable PDF digital download.
Perfect for reading groups, guided reading, independent comprehension tasks, literature studies and formative assessment.
Suitable for use with a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts – no specific book required.
