Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

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.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

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

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

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

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

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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.

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

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

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

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

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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.

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

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

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

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

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

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

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

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

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

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version