Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

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.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

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.

Learn to retell events in your own words with the help of this adorable story!