Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

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

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

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

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

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

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Wilhelm scream! Read about the famous Wilhelm scream on this worksheet with a research assignment.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slide into reading comprehension with this wintery poem about sledding down a snowy hill!

Bring a story to life with this pre-K and kindergarten read-and-draw worksheet!