Summarize and Retell Resources : Page 5

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

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.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

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: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

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

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

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

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

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Sharing Ideas with a Friend.

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!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

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

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

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