If you ask a tiny child to tell you about a movie (aka summarize a movie), you get the nearly random drove of details and events. For example, if you say "Tell me about Cinderella," you'll get something like "she wears a beautiful dress and her mom is really mean and the cat wants to eat a mouse with wearing apparel and I want to be Cinderella for Halloween!" Absolutely charming, but non a summary.

Needless to say, learning to summarize takes do and guidance. This tin can start with younger learners, where you ask them to draw pictures of the various components of a summary. Once kids get the hang of it, you can inquire them to provide a text-based summary.

Summarizing Graphic Organizer
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All of this can exist accomplished with this week'southward free printable. It comes in two versions (ane with a simpler font that will be easier for younger kids to read, and and so some other version with a font that'll interest older kids). You can employ this same string of prompt words (somebody, wanted, but, so, then) to assist kids summarize a story without giving them a graphic organizer.

Download the total-size printables: Summarizing Graphic Organizer – Upper grades [PDF] and Summarizing Graphic Organizer – Lower Grades [PDF]