Elementary School Summarize and Retell Worksheets

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

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

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

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

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

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

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

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

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

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

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

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.

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.