If you are looking for a fun way for your students to practise their summarising skills independently, then these worksheets are for you. Students roll the dice and then write about the key moment from the text. There are 2 options available to use for fiction or non-fiction texts.
This task can be used after reading a whole class text or an independent/guided reading book response.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
For students who find writing challenging, they can draw and label their ideas instead.
Use the worksheet as a prompt for students to write their own detailed summary of the text.