Ask your class to write a quick summary of a historical or current event. The worksheet offers a place to note down important details about the event, such as time, place, people, how it started, and how it ended. Pupils then take this information and use it to compose brief summaries in the space provided.

Concepts

supporting details, details, central ideas, main ideas, summarizing

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Additional Tags

summarize, summarize historical event, central idea, supporting details, social studies

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Pros

• The first half of the worksheet does provide scaffolding for the summary writing process

Cons

• Consider adding sentence frames to the summary portion to support learners of all levels and ages

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 RI.6.1 RI.7.1 RI.8.1