Selling Summary

This focused media literacy worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen comprehension, paraphrasing, and summary-writing skills by analyzing an advertisement. Students identify what the ad is promoting, its key features, and the intended audience, then write a clear 3-4 sentence summary in their own words, reinforcing the ability to extract and restate essential information.

Learning Goals

• Summary Writing (Grades 4-6): Write a concise summary that explains what an advertisement is selling or promoting.
• Identifying Key Ideas & Details: Determine the main product, important features, and target audience.
• Media Literacy Awareness: Understand the purpose of advertising and how messages are crafted to persuade.
• Paraphrasing Skills: Restate information accurately using original wording.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support upper elementary ELA and media literacy standards.
• Clear Writing Expectations: 3-4 sentence limit encourages focus and clarity.
• Real-World Text Analysis: Uses advertisements students encounter in everyday life.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for writing practice, literacy centers, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students become more confident in summarizing persuasive texts and identifying essential information. By analyzing and paraphrasing advertisement content, learners strengthen reading comprehension, writing fluency, and media-awareness skills. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with summary writing, paraphrasing, and thoughtful interpretation of advertising messages.

This worksheet is part of our reading advertisements worksheets collection.