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

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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.

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

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

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

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

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

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

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

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

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the 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.

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

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

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

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

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

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.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.