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Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Fiction Summarize and Retell Educational Resources

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

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

Retell It

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.

Ready, Set, Retell

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Retell Sentence Frames

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Retell with Pictures

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Students will start to build their reading comprehension and story recognition abilities with this stories lesson.

Comparing Stories

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.

It's Time to Retell

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

I Can Retell a Story!

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

The Three Little Pigs

Here's a conversation starter! Read rhymes and Aesop's tales to your child and have him ask and answer questions with this workbook focused on key details in texts.

Read-Aloud Tales and Questions

Dig into some of the most famous myths and legends across the country. This nonfiction comprehension workbook is complete with writing activities, fill-in-the-blanks, and drawing pages.

Creepy Creatures

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

The Hare and the Tortoise

Read this classic children&#39;s story &mdash;&nbsp;then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

The Little Red Hen

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

This book has The Three Little Pigs, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and more. What do these stories have in common? One wolfish character after another and a great excuse to compare and contrast stories.

The Book That Cried Wolf

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

The Ants and the Grasshopper

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.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

Little Boy Blue

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Learn the basics of summary and identifying the order of events — then try your hand at it!

Summarizing and Order of Events

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.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

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

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