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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

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.

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

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

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

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

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