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1st - 6th Grade Summarize and Retell Educational Resources : Page 6

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Play Picture Book Charades!

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.

Share Your Summary

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.

These Facts Stick in My Mind

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Tell Me About Your Favorite Book

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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.

The 180-Degree Rule in Movies

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Tell Me Everything

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

Recommended By Me! 

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

This Happened and Then

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Think, Jot, and Talk About Facts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Vocabulary Cards: A Simple Summary

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

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

See how many camping words you can spot in this word search!

My Vacation: Word Search 

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!

Summary to Speech

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

A Mad Tea Party

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

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

Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story

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.

Pick a Page

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Glossary: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Reread It!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Vocabulary Cards: Reading with Symbols

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

New Nonfiction Words Template

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Glossary: Reading with Symbols

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

 The Best Book You Could Imagine

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

The Tinder Box

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.

What's This Page About?

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

Summarize and Predict

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Vocabulary Cards: Retelling with Paragraph Frames

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