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Preschool - 2nd Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets : Page 2

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

Weekly Reading Response

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.

Give a Book Talk!

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

Glossary: Learn Story Elements

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

Draw What Happened

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

My Story Reflection

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.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

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!

Paragraph Frame Worksheet for Fictional Text Retell

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

The Starfish

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

The Frog and the Ox

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

A Mixed Up Beach Day

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

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.

Sundae Summarizing

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!

"Somebody Wanted" Story Map

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

Glossary: All About Sequencing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

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

I Can Retell a Story!

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

Main Topic Cards

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Glossary: Map a Story

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

Glossary: H Is for Humpty

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Summarize It

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

The Sweet Soup

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

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?

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

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 glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Glossary: What Happened to the Bunny?

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