Summer Summaries

Ages 7–10 · 7 minutes · English

Come read about what Liza's friends have been up to over the summer!

Continue building the skills of identifying a main topic, identifying supporting details and recalling key details while reading about what adventures Liza's friends have gone on this summer.

Prior knowledge required: ability to read sentences

Part of

Reading Comprehension 2

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
ELD-LA.2-3.Inform.Interpretive — Multilingual learners will interpret informational texts in language arts by • Identifying the main idea and key details • Referring explicitly to descriptions for themes and relationships among meanings • Describing relationship between a series of events, ideas or concepts, or procedural steps
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Alabama

ELA21.2.24 — Identify the main idea and supporting details of literary and informational texts.
ELA21.2.24b — Recount or summarize key ideas from the text.
ELA21.3.19 — Determine the explicit or implied main idea and supporting details of a text.
ELA21.2.44 — With prompting and support, compose and develop a well-organized paragraph with a topic sentence, details to support, and a concluding sentence.

Alaska

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of informational texts using key details from the text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text and locate details that support the main idea; paraphrase or summarize main ideas or events in a multi-paragraph text, including correct sequence and details that support the main idea.
RL.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text (e.g., making basic inferences and predictions), referring explicitly to details from the text as the basis for the answers.

Arizona

2.RI.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2.RI.2 — Identify and explain the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
1.RI.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
3.RI.2 * — Determine the main idea of a text; recount and paraphrase the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Arkansas

2.RC.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
2.RC.3.RF — Retell (orally or in writing) a text read aloud including main idea and key details to demonstrate understanding of the central message or topic.
3.RC.2.RF — Answer questions about key details in a text.
3.RC.5.RF — Use background knowledge and details, including illustrations, charts, and graphs, to make inferences about what happens in a text.
3.RC.6.RF — Demonstrate reading comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.

California

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Colorado

RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.ii — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.b.ii — Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.2-EO.a.iii — Summarize the main idea using relevant and significant details in a variety of texts.
RWC20-GR.2-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.i — Demonstrate use of self-monitoring comprehension strategies: rereading, checking context clues, predicting, questioning, clarifying, activating schema/background knowledge to construct meaning and draw inferences.

Connecticut

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Delaware

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
W.2.5 — With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Florida

ELA.2.R.2.2 — Identify the central idea and relevant details in a text.
ELA.1.R.2.2 — Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text.
ELA.K12.EE.3.1 — Make inferences to support comprehension.

Georgia

ELAGSE3RI2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
ELAGSE3RL1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
ELAGSE1RI2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
ELAGSE3W3.d — Provide a sense of closure.

Hawaii

3.RI.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
2.RF.4a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
2.RI.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2.RI.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Idaho

3.RC.NF.6a — Describe key details from texts and explain how they support the central idea.
3.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of grade-level texts, referring explicitly to textual evidence as the basis for the answers.
3.RS.DR.2 — Read a series of texts organized around a variety of conceptually related topics to build knowledge about the world. (These texts should be at a range of complexity levels so students can read the texts independently, with peers, or with modest support.)

Illinois

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Indiana

3.RC.5 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. (E)
2.RC.1 — Ask and answer questions about the main idea and key details in a text to demonstrate comprehension. (E)
2.RC.4 — Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. (E)
3.RC.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate comprehension of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (E)

Iowa

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details using evidence from the text.
W.2.5 — With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Kansas

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RF.2.4.d — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Kentucky

RI.2.2 — Identify implicit and explicit information from a summary to determine the central idea of a text.
GP.R.2 — Students will determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; cite specific textual evidence, including summary, paraphrase and direct quotations, to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RI.3.2 — Identify and cite relevant implicit and explicit information from a summary to determine the central idea of a text.
RL.3.1 — Ask and answer questions, and make and support logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.

Louisiana

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
W.2.5 — With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Maine

R.5.2.b — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and the central ideas of specific paragraphs.
R.4.2.a — Ask and answer questions about who, what, when, where, how and why.
R.5.3.b — Explain how the key details support the central idea of a text.

Maryland

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Massachusetts

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Michigan

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Minnesota

2.1.4.2 — Identify the central idea, message, or moral of a text and one or two supporting details.
2.1.2.1 — Read independently and monitor understanding of grade-level text;self-correct as needed using strategies including, but not limited to, decoding, making text-to-text connections, and building on strategies learned in previous grade levels, with guidance and support.
3.1.4.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of both literal and non literal language in a text, referring explicitly to the texts as the basis for the answers; summarize the text.
4.1.4.1 — Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text; summarize the text.

Mississippi

RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Missouri

2.R.1.A.c — seeking clarification and using information/ facts and details about texts and supporting answers with evidence from text
1.R.3.C.b — identify main ideas and provide supporting details
3.R.1.A.b — drawing conclusions and support with textual evidence

Montana

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CCRA.R.2 — Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Nebraska

LA.1.RI.1 — Identify the main topic and key details in an informational text.
LA.1.RI.2 — Identify key individuals, events, or pieces of information in an informational text.
LA.1.RP.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.

Nevada

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

New Hampshire

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

New Jersey

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

New Mexico

RL.2.NM.1 — Identify the main topic, retell key details of a text, and make predictions;
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

New York

2R2 — Identify a main topic or central idea and retell key details in a text; summarize portions of a text. (RI&RL)
2R1 — Develop and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
3R1 — Develop and answer questions to locate relevant and specific details in a text to support an answer or inference. (RI&RL)

North Carolina

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

North Dakota

2.R.3.a — Identify the main idea with supporting details during or after reading an informational text or passage.
2.R.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details before, during, and after reading a variety of literary and informational texts to compare, contrast, predict or infer.
3.R.3.a — Summarize the main idea(s) with supporting details during and after reading an informational text or passage.
3.R.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details before, during, and after reading a variety of genres, literary, and informational texts using text evidence to compare, contrast, predict, and infer.

Ohio

RI.3.2.a — Determine the main idea of a text.
RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.2.a — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text.
RI.3.2.b — Retell the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Oklahoma

2.2.R.1 — Students will identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.
2.3.R.5 — Students will use details from the literary or informational text to draw conclusions and make predictions.
3.2.R.1 — Students will determine the main idea and supporting details of a text.

Oregon

2.RI.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2.RI.2 — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
3.RI.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
1.RI.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.2.1.A — Identify the main idea and retell key details of text.
CC.1.2.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CC.1.2.3.A — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CC.1.2.2.A — Identify the main idea of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Rhode Island

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

South Carolina

ELA.2.AOR.2.2 — Identify and explain a central idea and supporting details in an informational text.
ELA.3.AOR.2.2 — Determine and explain a stated central idea and supporting details in an informational text.
ELA.2.AOR.6.1 — Retell a text to enhance comprehension: a. include main story elements in a logical sequence for a literary text; and b. include a central idea and supporting details for an informational text.

South Dakota

1.RI.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
1.RI.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
2.RI.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
3.RI.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; identify the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Tennessee

1.RI.KID.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1.RI.KID.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
R.KID.1 — Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
R.KID.2 — Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Texas

2.6G — evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
2.9D.i — the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance;
3.6G — evaluate details read to determine key ideas;

Utah

2.R.6 — Read a variety of texts including those from diverse cultures, retell the narrative (RL) or informational text (RI) according to the text structure including the main idea.
3.R.6 — Read a variety of texts including those from diverse cultures, retell the text according to the text structure including the main idea and how key details support the main idea. (RL & RI)
1.R.5 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (RL & RI)

Vermont

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Virginia

2.RI.1.B — Retell key details of texts that demonstrate an understanding of the main topics of texts.
1.RI.1.B — Identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.

Washington

RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.3.2 — Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Washington, D.C.

RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

West Virginia

ELA.3.5 — Determine the main idea of an informational text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
ELA.2.4 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in informational text.
ELA.2.5 — Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within informational text.
ELA.3.4 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of an informational text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Wisconsin

ELA.2.R.2 — Summarize portions of a text in order to identify a main topic or central idea and key details in a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.2.R.1 — Develop and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and details in a text. (RI&RL)
ELA.2.RF.4.a — Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
ELA.3.R.2 — Summarize portions of a text to determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details. (RI&RL)

Wyoming

RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RF.2.4.a — Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.