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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets : Page 3

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

What Happened?

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!

Read, Tell, Write

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.

Map that Story!

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.

Share Your Summary

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Tell Me Everything

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

Recommended By Me! 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Glossary: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Vocabulary Cards: Using the 5 W's

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Summarize and Predict

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

The Sweet Soup

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Vocabulary Cards: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarize a Nonfiction Text

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

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Vocabulary Cards: Retelling with Paragraph Frames

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

Glossary: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Glossary: Retelling a Fiction Story

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Think, Jot, and Talk About Facts

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

Order the Story: Kim and Tim

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

A Mixed Up Beach Day

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Glossary: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories

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

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Connections in a Fiction Text

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Book Pen Pals

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Vocabulary Cards: Elements of Fairy Tales

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.

Tell Me About Your Favorite Book

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Retelling a Fiction Story

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Chapter Bubbles

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

What's This Page About?

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Summary to Speech

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