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Kindergarten - 2nd 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

Read this charmingly illustrated story of &quot;The Three Little Pigs&quot; then use the finger puppets to retell it!

The Three Little Pigs

Read this classic children&#39;s story &mdash;&nbsp;then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

The Little Red Hen

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

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

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!

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.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

Little Boy Blue

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Sequencing to Summarize

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

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Read this nursery rhyme classic, then answer a reading comprehension question.

The House that Jack Built

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

Story Order: Case 2

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

My Reading Reflection Journal

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

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!

Chapter Summaries

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.

It's Time to Retell

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

Draw What Happened

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

I Can Retell a Story!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

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

The Frog and the Ox

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

Read this sweet poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a few short reading comprehension questions.

The Four Friends

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

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

Story Order: Case 1

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

Furry Bear

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.

Retelling Folktales and Fables

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