Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

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!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

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.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

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

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.