Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

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.

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

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

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.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

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

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

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