Kindergarten and 1st Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

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!

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

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.

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

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!