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Sum Up a Story: Beginning, Middle, and End (Grade 2)

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Grade 2 Language · 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension

Sum Up a Story: Beginning, Middle, and End (Grade 2)

Story summary for Grade 2: read a short story about a lost kite, choose what happens at the beginning, middle, and end, pick the best summary, leave out a small detail, and sum up the story in three sentences in order. With an answer key.

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Read a story or a text of a few paragraphs, answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about it, put its events in order, and say its main idea, lesson or moral and what each paragraph is about.

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How to use this sheet

  • Read the passage aloud together first, then have the child read it alone before the questions.
  • Read each question aloud and have the child find the paragraph that holds the answer, and point to it.
  • Ask one question that is not on the sheet, such as "What do you think happens next?"

Common mistakes

  • Answering from what they know instead of from the passage. Ask "Where does it say that?"
  • Choosing an answer because it uses a word from the passage, even if it does not answer the question.
  • Forgetting the order of events in a story. Have the child retell it: first, next, then, last.

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