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.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

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.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

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

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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

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.

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.