This set of worksheets will help you guide your students in summarising nonfiction texts. Each worksheet provides a text and prompts students to write a concise one-sentence summary, helping them develop essential comprehension and summarising skills. It is perfect for reinforcing key information retention and understanding.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources