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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

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

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.