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

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

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

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.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Sharing Ideas with a Friend.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing 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: All About Sequencing.