Kindergarten Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

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

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

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

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

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

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

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

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

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

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

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

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

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

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.