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🌱 Summarize It 5: The Class Garden

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🌱 The Class Garden

Ms. Kim's class planted a garden behind the school.

They planted tomatoes, beans and sunflowers.

Every day, two students were garden helpers.

One week, rabbits nibbled the bean plants.

The class built a small fence out of sticks and string.

The beans grew back, and the sunflowers grew taller than the fence.

In June, the class picked the vegetables and made a salad to share.

Somebody (who?)
Wanted (what did they want?)
But (what was the problem?)
So (what did they do?)
Then (how did it end?)
Answer key: The class · wanted a garden · rabbits ate the beans · they built a fence · they picked vegetables and made a salad
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Free summarizing printable for Grades 1–2 (The Class Garden): read “The Class Garden” and retell it with Somebody–Wanted–But–So–Then. Skill: Retells the central ideas of a reading (second-grade readiness). Level: Grade 1 & Grade 2 — also suits Year 2 (UK).

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Retells the central ideas of a reading (second-grade readiness).

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