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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

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

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

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.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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