Kindergarten - 4th Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

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

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

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

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

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.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

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

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

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

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

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

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

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

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.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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

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.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

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