Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

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

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book 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.

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 will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

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

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 half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

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.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

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

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

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.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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

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

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

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

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!

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.