Summarizing Nonfiction Reading Passages and Worksheets

If your students are focusing on summarizing nonfiction texts, these reading passages and comprehension questions can help! This set of nonfiction passages will help your students get plenty of practice summarizing nonfiction.

What’s Included?

6 Reading Passages each with a graphic organizer and comprehension questions. Each passage is short, yet engaging, and students will follow the same four-step process when reading each text.

• Step 1: Read the Passage
• Step 2: Think About the Passage
• Step 3: Organize Your Thinking
• Step 4: Respond to the Text

The goal with these texts is to give students an authentic reading experience where they have the time and space to critically think about the text and apply key reading skills.

How could I use this resource?

• Small Group Instruction
• Independent Practice
• Morning Work
• Spiral Review
• Test Prep
• Homework
• Assessments
• Partner Practice

Table of Contents/Specific Text Focus

• Text #1 – From Fins to Fans: How Humpback Whales Are Helping Us Improve Wind Turbines (Nonfiction Summary Checklist)
• Text #2 – Garrett Morgan’s Life Saving Invention (5W Questions)
• Text #3 – A Blossoming Business (TAMKO Formula)
• Text #4 – Exploring Sea and Space (Using Text Structure to Summarize)
• Text #5 – Up, Up, and Away (Summarizing Sections)
• Text #6 – Steering Away from Sleepiness (BME)

**The resource is also included in The Stellar Literacy Collective.**

*Please note, there is no answer key included. Digital option is included.

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