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1st Grade Summarize and Retell Resources

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

The Hare and the Tortoise

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.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

String Story Necklaces

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Weekly Reading Response

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

My Reading Reflection Journal

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

Fairy Tale Story Map

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

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

Three Little Pigs Story Map

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.

Give a Book Talk!

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!

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Reading Partners Record!

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

Vocabulary Cards: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Main Topic Cards

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

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

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Facts, Facts, Facts

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Read, Tell, Write

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

Vocabulary Cards: Reading with Symbols

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

Vocabulary Cards: Learn Story Elements

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

 The Best Book You Could Imagine

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

Glossary: Reading with Symbols

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

New Nonfiction Words Template

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.

Reading with Symbols

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