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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

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

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

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

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

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

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

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

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

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

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!