Preschool - 1st Grade Summarize and Retell Resources

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

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.

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.

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

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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

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 Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.