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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

Give a Book Talk!

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

the best book you could imagine

 The Best Book You Could Imagine

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.

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Book Pen Pals

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

Play Picture Book Charades!

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

finish the fact cloud

Finish the Fact Cloud

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

Pick a Page

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

recommended by me

Recommended By Me! 

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

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Rock Painting: Retell a Story

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

Tell Me About Your Favorite Book

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.

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Reading Partners Record!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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Story Sequencing Activity

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

questions anyone ask your way to reading comprehension

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

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

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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

These Facts Stick in My Mind

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

Reading with Symbols

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

ready set retell

Ready, Set, Retell

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.

whats this page about

What's This Page About?

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

would you recommend it

Would You Recommend It?

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

Share Your Summary

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.

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Facts, Facts, Facts

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

Tell Me Everything

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!

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Summary to Speech

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

main ideas and details

Main Ideas and Details

Through this lesson, your students will use academic vocabulary to discuss character traits, author's purpose, and the sequence of events in a story.

learn story elements

Learn Story Elements

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

string story necklaces

String Story Necklaces

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

play story ball a reading comprehension game

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details. 

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What Happened?

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

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