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

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.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

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

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

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.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

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

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

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!

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.