Summarising Fiction using Summary Grids, Yrs 3-6

About this teaching resource

This resource, Summarising Fiction using Summary Grids, Yrs 3-6, provides guidance for teachers on the strategy of summarising text to help readers identify and organise essential information. Strategic readers are encouraged to summarise during reading by focusing on key elements such as important ideas, events, details, structural clues, and supporting information.

The resource offers prompts for summarising chapter books using a summary grid, where readers record the book title, author, chapter numbers/headings, and summarise each chapter by including aspects of setting, plot, characters, theme, and key words or phrases.

After completing the book, readers can review their chapter summaries and write a short sentence summary of the entire text.

This resource promotes active engagement with the text and the development of summarising skills to enhance reading comprehension and build prior knowledge.