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

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

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.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

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

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

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

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

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

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

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

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: Map a Story.

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.