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!

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

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.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

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

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.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

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

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

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

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.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.