Kindergarten and 1st Grade Summarize and Retell Resources

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

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

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.

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!

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.

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

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.

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

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

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

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!

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

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

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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

Have your kindergarten students retell the story with pictures. This is a great activity to promote reading comprehension!

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.

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

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.