Summarize a Story About a Broken Robot Kit

Have your child tell you the story in three sentences before writing. Talk about why a detail is too small to belong or a summary is too full of opinions. Check with the answer key.

Fill in a Somebody Wanted But So Then chart for Kai's robot kit story and write a summary. A summary retells only the most important events of a story, in order. The directions on the page read: Read the story. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Use the story. Fill in chart rows 1 to 5. Then, circle the best answer to questions 6 and 7. Then, answer question 8 on the 5 lines with 3 or 4 sentences. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 4th Grade main idea and details, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with summarizing. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

It tells the most important events in order, in a few sentences, and leaves out small details and opinions. Summarizing a story is part of RL.4.2.

A summary reports what happened, not what the reader thinks of it. On three sheets, one wrong summary is full of opinions, like calling the canoe trip the best ever, and on the others children pick the detail that does not belong. Both help children see the difference.

Use the chart as a plan. A Somebody Wanted But So Then chart reads almost like one long sentence to split in two, and a beginning, middle and end chart gives one sentence for each box, joined with words like first, then and in the end.

Yes. All ten summarizing sheets have an answer key, with a sample summary.

10 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 4th Grade students, roughly ages 9-10. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the Common Core code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.