Preschool - 1st Grade Summarize and Retell Activities

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.