Early Childhood Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?