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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

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

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

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

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

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

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

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

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

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

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

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.

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

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.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

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!

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.