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

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 structure to summarize a short fiction text.

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

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

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.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

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

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

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

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

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

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

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

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!

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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.