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Elementary School Summarize and Retell Resources : Page 3

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

Writing Book Reviews

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Writing a Fiction Summary: The Wind in the Willows

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Story Order: Case 1

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

Fairy Tale Story Map

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

Three Little Pigs Story Map

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.

Sequencing to Summarize

Read this sweet poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a few short reading comprehension questions.

The Four Friends

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game

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.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

The Five Little Pigs

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

Learn the basics of summary and identifying the order of events — then try your hand at it!

Summarizing and Order of Events

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Historical Perspectives: Westward Expansion

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Rock Painting: Retell a Story

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Summary Writing: Big Ideas vs. Details

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: A Freedom Fighter

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Story Order: Case 2

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Story Sequencing Activity

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: We Need Clean Water

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

I Can Retell a Story!

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Social Media Book Review

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Weekly Reading Response

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.

Give a Book Talk!

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

The Frog and the Ox

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Big Idea Summary

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

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