This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

Have your kindergarten students retell the story with pictures. This is a great activity to promote reading comprehension!

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.