Use these engaging activities to guide your students to master summarizing their reading! Students will use main ideas and details to summarize both fiction and nonfiction reading passages in this unit. Summarizing Unit Contents: pages 1-2: Cover/Overview/Contents pages 3-4: Summarize Fiction and Summarize Nonfiction posters page 5: Main Idea and Supporting Details poster pages 6-12: Find the Key Concept activity (Students search around the room for 16 reading passages and match them to the main ideas on their recording sheet.) page 13: Find the Key Concept activity answer key page 14: Galapagos Island Main Idea and Details coloring worksheet page 15: Galapagos Island Main Idea and Details answer key page 16: Sort and Summarize task cards instructions pages 17-18: Short and Sweet Summaries reference posters pages 19-22: Sort and Summarize task cards (8) pages 23-26: Sort and Summarize answer key pages 27-32: Hunting for Summaries (6 passages that practice summarizing text in a consecutive order.) page 33: Hunting for Summaries answer key pages 34-36: Fiction and Nonfiction Post-It Practice pages pages 37-38: What's the Big Idea? Fiction and Nonfiction student posters pages 39-42: back-to-back summarizing fiction and nonfiction bookmarks (2) pages 42-84: black and white duplicate copy for your convenience page 85: Thank you and check out more units in this series! :) Enjoy! Copyright (c) 2014 bbap This unit is part of a series. The rest of the units are listed below: This unit is part of a series. The rest of the units are listed below: Visualizing Unit Making Connections Unit Asking Questions Unit Inferring Unit Predicting Unit Buy them together and save with this bundle: BUNDLE: All Reading Comprehension Units!