Early Childhood Summarize and Retell Resources

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.

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

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

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

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.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

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: All About Sequencing.

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

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

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

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.