By Deb Hanson ©2014 www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deb-Hanson

Interactive Notebook- Summarizing Fiction

Students cut out the picture box and glue it on one page of their interactive notebooks. Students cut out the Summary Sundae list and glue it to the left margin of the next notebook page. Read aloud a fiction book to the students, and then determine (as a class) what to write beside each summary element. In the photo below, I read the chapter “Bebe” from Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar to the students, and we summarized it together. (This is also done in my Summarizing PowerPoint- see Slide 39.)

A Summary

Sundae! Setting:

Characters:

End/Resolution:

Theme:

Beginning/Problem:

Middle/Events:

Beginning/ Problem Middle/

Events

End/ Resolution

Theme

Writing a Summary? Think of the parts of a SUNDAE!

If you are looking for other resources that your students can use to practice the skill of summarizing, you might want to check out my matching resources.

I have a Summarizing Powerpoint available in my store.

I also have a Summarizing Craftivity.

Credits

Ice Cream Clip Art & Cover Border by Jena Flanagan http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Aim-Less-Daze

Notebook Image by Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Zip-a-dee-doo-dah-Designs

Fonts by Hello Literacy http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Hello-Literacy

By Deb Hanson © 2014 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deb-Hanson