Year 2 Summarising Unit | Reading Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Help Year 2 students identify the most important ideas in fiction and non-fiction texts, leave out minor details, and retell key information in their own words with this complete summarising unit.

Students practise main idea and key facts, beginning-middle-end summaries, SWBST story summaries, improving weak summaries and building concise non-fiction summaries.

What’s Included

• 17-page unit plan PDF
• Editable 15-slide PowerPoint teaching presentation
• Editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz with answer slides
• Summarising Toolkit classroom display
• Summary Trail and Summary Sort colour games and activities
• Five black-and-white student worksheets covering main idea, SWBST, beginning-middle-end, summary editing and non-fiction summaries
• Matching worksheet and assessment answer pages where answers are meaningful
• Summary Check assessment task
• A4 landscape five-level marking rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify main ideas and key facts
• Distinguish important information from minor details
• Summarise fiction and non-fiction texts in students’ own words
• Retell events in a logical sequence
• Improve weak or incomplete summaries

Classroom Use

Suitable for explicit comprehension teaching, guided reading, small groups, literacy centres, independent practice, oral retelling, written responses, revision and assessment.

This is a digital resource supplied in PDF and editable PowerPoint formats. No physical product will be shipped.