Summarize and Retell Resources : Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

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

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

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

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.

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

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

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

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.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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

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