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

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.

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.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

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

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

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

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

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!

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

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

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

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

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