Summarizing Literary Texts

CCSS RL4.2:…summarize the text of a story or drama

When you summarize a text, you retell its’ most important details and events. A summary is a shorter version of the full text. A good summary answers some or all of these questions:

Summarizing Literary Text Strategy

Read the story below. Think about how you would re-tell it to someone in a sentence or two.

Use the organizer to help

you summari

ze the text.

In your literacy journal…