Summarize and Retell Activities

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.