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.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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.

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

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

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.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

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

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

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

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

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.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

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

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

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

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

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

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

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.

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