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1st Grade Fiction Common Core Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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

The Hare and the Tortoise

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Story Elements Map

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.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

After independent reading, have students record and reflect. Young readers will demonstrate their ability to summarize and respond to their reading, and a log is a fun way for them to track their progress. Make copies of this log to use again and again!

Independent Reading Log

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.

Reading Comprehension: Map That Story!

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

My Reading Reflection Journal

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

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!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

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

Weekly Reading Response

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

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

Ready, Set, Retell

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!

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Tell Me Everything

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Glossary: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Book Pen Pals

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Would You Recommend It?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Vocabulary Cards: Learn Story Elements

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

 The Best Book You Could Imagine

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Vocabulary Cards: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

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.

Tell Me About Your Favorite Book

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Glossary: Reading with Symbols

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.

Retell Sentence Frames

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

(Re) Tell About It

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Reading with Symbols

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Recommended By Me! 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Vocabulary Cards: Reading with Symbols

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1st Grade Fiction Common Core Summarize and Retell Worksheets

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