Summarizing Worksheets

Gathering key information from texts in all content areas involves merging strategies--analysis, chunking, and vocabulary recognition-to reduce a large text into something bite-sized. Students must be able to peel away irrelevant material to get to the core. In this unit, elementary through high school levels practice with nonfiction reading comprehension activities, while a grade 3-8 portion adds the specific skill of answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to sort out the main idea.