Preschool - 3rd Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

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.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

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

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

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.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

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

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

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

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

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.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

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

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.