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Preschool - 3rd Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Worksheets

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

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

Retell It

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.

Ready, Set, Retell

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.

Retell Sentence Frames

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Retell with Pictures

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Make a Summary: Butterflies

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

It's Time to Retell

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

I Can Retell a Story!

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

The Three Little Pigs

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

The Hare and the Tortoise

Read this classic children&#39;s story &mdash;&nbsp;then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

The Little Red Hen

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

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

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

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

Little Boy Blue

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

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

Summarizing and Order of Events

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!

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

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

Story Flipbook

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

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

Summary with Time Order Words

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

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