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

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

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

Help your child comprehend his reading better by using this graphic organizer. Help him fill out the story map for The Three Little Pigs.

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.

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.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

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