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Kindergarten - 8th Grade Common Core Summarize and Retell Worksheets : Page 5

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Summarizing with Key Words

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19&ndash;23 of Suzanne Collins&rsquo;s <em>The Hunger Games</em> with this helpful discussion guide!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Discussion Guide #5

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building  mini version of it!

To Build a Fire

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Summarize It

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Underline Key Details

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

The Sweet Soup

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Who Was Junko Tabei?

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26&ndash;33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s <em>Anne of Green Gables</em>.

Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #4

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Vocabulary Cards: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Theme, Cause, and Effect Reading Log

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

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mysterious Squid

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Read, Tell, Write

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

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

 The Best Book You Could Imagine

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

What Happened?

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Poetry Reflections Reading Log

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Glossary: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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

Vocabulary Cards: Map a Story

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Malala: Interview

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Glossary: Retelling with Paragraph Frames

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Classifying Visual Text Features

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.

Sharing Ideas About Stories

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

A Mad Tea Party

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.

Retell with Pictures

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