New York State Elementary Test Prep- ELA 4- Grade 3 Compound Words

Directions: Print or read the story online.

Use information from the story to write a story summary.

1. What is the main idea? Write a sentence that tells the main idea of the story.

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2. What are the most important things that happened in the story? Write one or 2 sentences.

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3. Put the sentences from 1 and 2 together. Write them on the lines below. This is your story summary.

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