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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets : Page 2

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

Main Topic Worksheet

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.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

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!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

Read this sweet poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a few short reading comprehension questions.

The Four Friends

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

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.

Give a Book Talk!

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

Furry Bear

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Glossary: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Summarize It

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.

Sundae Summarizing

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

Draw What Happened

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!

"Somebody Wanted" Story Map

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!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Making Predictions and Summarizing: Tell Me What You Think

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Glossary: Map a Story

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

Weekly Reading Response

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.

Facts, Facts, Facts

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

Story Order: Case 2

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

Classifying Visual Text Features

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

The Frog and the Ox

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

My Story Reflection

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

This Happened and Then

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Glossary: All About Sequencing

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

Main Topic Cards

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

(Re) Tell About It

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Vocabulary Cards: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

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