My students always had trouble writing a well-written summary. I came across the IVF strategy and created a graphic organizer to help teach my students how to organize and write a summary for both fiction and nonfiction. The IVF (Identify the story, Verb- is it telling, explaining, giving directions, etc., and Finish thought) helps students create a strong topic sentence for their summary. Once they complete the first page, then they think about the main events or the important facts in the b