The fourth and fifth grade students in Ms. Furlong’s Title I class at St. Anthony of Padua School are learning to use a non-fiction story frame. They used these story frames when writing summaries of short non-fiction passages from Scholastic’s Guided Reading Short Reads Non-Fiction.
Ms. Furlong first guided the students on writing their summaries by using a non-fiction summary frame. The summary frame included the following:
- The author’s purpose for writing the passage.
- Some information they learned or were surprised by.
- And the main idea of the passage.
Fifth Grade Summaries Using a Non-Fiction Story Frame
Fourth Grade Summaries Using Non-Fiction Story Frames