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

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

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

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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

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

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

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.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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.

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.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

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!