---
title: Super Summaries!
description: Students will create a comic summarizing a text they have read in class.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/super_summaries-001-1.png
---

**Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)**

**Lesson Length: 30 - 50 mins**

**Topic: Summarizing Text**

**Grade Level: 5, 6**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.2](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)
- [CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ELA_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will create a comic summarizing a text they have read in class.

**Know Before You Start:** This lesson works best after reading a short story, chapter, or novel. 

**Hook:**

- After completing a short story, chapter, or novel, discuss the main events. List these events in order on the board. 
- Review and discuss how to summarize a text.
  
    - Which details would you include in a summary?
    - Which details would you leave out?
- Read the sample comic in preparation for the student activity.

**Activity:**

- Have students create a comic summarizing a story, book, or chapter they have read in class or at home.
- The comic should show at least four of the most important events. 

**Closure:**

- Display student comics on a bulletin board or have students share their comics with the class. 

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Provide visuals when sequencing events. 
- Allow students to use a thinking map to organize their ideas. 
- Provide sentence stems as needed.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qdbfnqd).
- Mind Maps: [Option 1](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_03.pdf), [Option 2](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_04.pdf).

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1629220787615604736/thumbnail.png) Bridge To Terabithia ](https://content.pixton.com/bridge-to-terabithia)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-windinwillows-1.png) The Wind In The Willows ](https://content.pixton.com/the-wind-in-the-willows)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2100996838463533056/thumbnail.png) Hatchet ](https://content.pixton.com/hatchet)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2065502218033872896/thumbnail.png) The Giver ](https://content.pixton.com/the-giver)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-isleofbluedolphins.png) Island Of The Blue Dolphins ](https://content.pixton.com/island-of-the-blue-dolphins)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-cricket.png) The Cricket In Times Square ](https://content.pixton.com/the-cricket-in-times-square)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Retell Esperanza Rising With Visual Prompts ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/retell-esperanza-rising-with-visual-prompts)
- [ Retell Hatchet With Visual Prompts ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/retell-hatchet-with-visual-prompts)
- [ Retell The Giver With Visual Prompts ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/retell-the-giver-with-visual-prompts)

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