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.

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.

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

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

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

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 nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

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!

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

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

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

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

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

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

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.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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