Elementary School Summarize and Retell Resources : Page 4

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

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

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

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

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.