Ready to teach your middle school students a simple three-step process for reading and summarizing a nonfiction text? Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Problem and Solution is for you! Students learn to identify signal words and phrases, complete a graphic organizer, and use a paragraph frame to write a summary of a nonfiction text.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
• 33 PowerPoint™ Slides including 15 editable slides with no-prep teacher modeling and example summaries
• 2-page Summarizing Nonfiction: Problem and Solution worksheet with a short nonfiction text, graphic organizer, and paragraph frame
• 4 Graphic Organizers for Problem and Solution, with and without labels
• 2 Paragraph Frames plus signal words & phrases for Problem and Solution
• Teacher’s Guide with detailed lesson plan, recommendations, and extension ideas
• Answer Keys
All student pages are in printable PDF format.

HOW IT WORKS
• The lesson begins with a review of the organizational text structure: problem and solution found in informational and explanatory texts.
• Next, through teacher modeling, students learn to read and analyze a problem and solution passage using signal words and phrases, graphic organizers, and paragraph frames to write a summary of the text.
• Finally, students apply the three-step process as they read and summarize a problem and solution passage and complete the Summarizing Nonfiction: Problem and Solution worksheet.

This lesson is designed for middle school students. CLICK HERE for the high school version.
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Looking for more Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction lessons?
• Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Description
• Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Sequence or Chronological Order
• Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Comparison and Contrast
• Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Cause and Effect

❊ CLICK HERE for a FREE sample of the graphic organizers used in the Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction lessons.

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RELATED RESOURCES
• Introduction to Nonfiction Text Structure: Problem and Solution
• Nonfiction Paragraph Writing: Problem and Solution
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