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

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.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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

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.

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

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

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

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

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!

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.

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.

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.