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Kindergarten - 6th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Educational Resources : Page 2

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

A biome is a community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. In this great introductory overview, we explore the vocabulary, flora, and fauna of the world's biomes: tundra, taiga, grasslands, deciduous forest, chaparral, desert, savanna,

Terrestrial Biomes

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

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Summarizing Informational Texts: Graphic Organizer

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.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

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

Three Sentence Summary

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

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

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

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

Summarizing and Order of Events

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.

Chapter Summary

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

Little Boy Blue

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

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

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

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.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

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!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #3

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Novel Discussion Guide for Teachers

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

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

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

Summary with Time Order Words

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

My Reading Reflection Journal

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!

Chapter Summaries

Well-loved favorites like "The Three Little Pigs" and "Five Little Monkeys" are featured in this sweet reading comprehension workbook. Read the stories, poems, and songs. Then, answer the thoughtful questions that follow.

Children’s Stories, Poems, and Songs

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Kindergarten - 6th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Educational Resources : Page 2

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