Summarizing and Paraphrasing Practice Worksheets, Activities, Anchor Charts

This Summarizing and Paraphrasing BUNDLE is perfect for your 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. The summarizing worksheets and paraphrasing practice resources include engaging summarizing and paraphrasing worksheets, graphic organizers, anchor charts, checklists, bookmarks, digital notebooks, and plenty of scaffolded activities to help your students gain independence when summarizing and paraphrasing. Perfect for test prep.

These summarizing worksheets and paraphrasing practice worksheets come with digital notebooks that are differentiated to help improve the engagement of your students!

Readability is in the 3rd-5th grade range. This paraphrasing and summarizing bundle is perfect for test prep, centers, independent work, homework, early finishers, and so much more!

What's included in the Summarizing Worksheets?

• Print (PDF) resource
• Digital Notebooks
• LEVEL 1
  • 3 Summary Detectives: Students will read a text. They will then read 4 different paragraphs relating to the text. They will write if each one is a summary or not and why.   
  • 3 Sort it Out: Students sort ideas into their corresponding part of a summary using the TAMS acronym.  
  • 2 Find the Parts: Students read a summary and underline each part with a specified color. 
  • 3 Locate the Key Words: Students will read 3 texts that contain underlined words. They will determine if the underlined words are important, unimportant, or a mix of both. 
  • 3 Is it Important?: Students will be given the about/topic and main idea parts of a summary. They will read 6 details and decide if they are important or not important based on the main idea. 
  • 9 Summarize (1, 3, & 5 paragraphs): Students will read nonfiction texts of varying lengths. They will complete an organizer and use it to write a summary of the text in their own words. 

• LEVEL 2 (differentiated)
  • 3 Summary Detectives: Students will read a text along with 4 different paragraphs relating to the text. They will answer multiple-choice questions about whether each paragraph is a summary or not and why.  
  • 2 Sort it Out: Students will read ideas for each part of a summary on an organizer. They will circle the idea that is written in the incorrect part of the organizer. 
  • 3 Find the Parts: Students will read a summary and answer multiple choice questions about labeled parts of the summary. 
  • 3 Locate the Key Words: Students will read 2 texts that contain underlined words. They will determine if the underlined words are important or unimportant.  
  • 3 Is it Important?: Students will be given the about/topic and main idea parts of a summary. They will read 6 details and decide if they are important or not important based on the main idea. 
  • 9 Summarize (1, 3, & 5 paragraphs): Students will read texts of varying lengths. They will complete an organizer by circling the correct information and use it to write a summary of the text in their own words using provided sentence stems. 

• Answer keys are provided for all activities.

What's included in this Paraphrasing Practice Worksheets Resource?

• Printable paraphrasing worksheets
• Digital notebooks (differentiated version included)
• Paraphrasing pre and post-assessments
  • Nonfiction texts
  • Differentiated version provided

• 3 Paraphrasing anchor charts
  • Provided in color and black and white

• 2 Paraphrasing bookmarks
  • Provided in color and black and white

• 6 Different paraphrasing activities 
  • Multiple pages per activity
  • Nonfiction texts
  • Differentiated version provided

• 8 Paraphrasing practice paragraphs 
  • Nonfiction text
  • Differentiated version provided

• Answer keys

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