Elementary School Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

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

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.

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 students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

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.

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

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

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.