Rooted in Reading Toolkit for Summary and Central Idea

Are you struggling to find printables, activities, lessons, and ideas to teach the reading skills of Central Idea and Summarizing while reading a text? This Digital and Printable Reading Toolkit will give you mini-lessons, reading response worksheets, anchor charts, and more to help target determining the central idea and summarizing a text while reading.

This Reading Toolkit provides digital and printable resources for comprehension skills.  Think of this as a Reading Comprehension Toolkit.  These are activities that are NOT book  specific.  Here are some of the things you'll find in our Reading Comprehension Toolkits:

• Video mini-lessons of Katie and Amy teaching the skill
• Digital and Printable reading response activities
• Digital and Printable anchor charts
• Digital Interactive activities to practice the skill
• Digital and Printable comprehension activities
• Reading Passages that correlate with each skill
• Directed Drawings that correlate with each skill
• Chants (with videos) to reinforce the comprehension skill 
• Digital and Printable Exit Tickets
• AND MORE (read below for specifics)

This resource is a part of a BUNDLE. You can find that HERE!

This teaching resource is NOT a set of lesson plans. This is a set of activities that can be used when you are focusing on Writing Summaries and Identifying the Central Idea with Supporting Details. They can be used throughout a unit of study OR they can be used throughout the year as you are reading books in class. We wanted to give you EVERYTHING you could ever need for a comprehension skill.

Please Note: For Summarizing lessons and activities we use the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then strategy.

Please Note: We use the terms Central Idea and Supporting Details

The digital activities come in three formats:

1. PowerPoints are found in the zip file.

2. Google Slide Links are found throughout the PDF.

3. Seesaw Links are found throughout the PDF.

For Google Slides and Seesaw, you simply click and save/assign to your class.

Here's what is included:

•Summary Chant with Teaching Video

•Central Idea Teaching Video

•Central Idea Chant with Teaching Video

•Summary Posters

•Summary Teaching Video with Sneezy the Snowman Read Aloud, Response Sheet, and Winter Friend Directed Drawing (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Summary Focus Posters

•Central Idea and Supporting Details Focus Posters

•We Can Summarize Digital Anchor Chart (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Pizza with a Purpose Central Idea Digital Anchor Chart (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Central Idea Anchor Chart (Printable)

•SWBST Summary Anchor Chart (Printable)

•The Central Idea Bookmarks (Printable)

•Summary SWBST Bookmarks (Printable)

•Summary and Central Idea Printables

•Summarizing Fables Interactive Digital Activity, Directed Drawing (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Expanding with SWBST Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Brave Irene Read Aloud and Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•The Curious Garden Read Aloud and Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•All About the Details Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Find the Support Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Animal Articles Central Idea Interactive Digital Activity (PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•4 Level 1 Passages (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•4 Level 2 Passages (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•4 Level 3 Passages (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Exit Tickets for Central Idea and Details (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•Exit Tickets for Writing a Summary (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•4 Digital and Printable Reading Response Sheets for Summarizing (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

•4 Digital and Printable Reading Response Sheets for Central Idea (Printable, PPT, Seesaw, Google Slides)

Please check out the preview! It is very detailed and shows everything that we include in this resource!

Comprehension Toolkits:

Predictions and Synthesizing Toolkit

Character Analysis

Settings and Illustrations

Questioning While Reading

Summarizing the Text

Comparing Texts

Making Inferences

Nonfiction Text Features

Theme and Lesson

Making Connections

Please Note:This teaching resource is a part of our Rooted in Reading: The Subscription. If you are a subscription member, you do not need to purchase this resource. The subscription is now closed, so it is now only available for purchase through Teachers Pay Teachers.