Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

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.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

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

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.