Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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

Read this charmingly illustrated story of "The Three Little Pigs" then use the finger puppets to retell it!

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

Read this classic children's story — then stage a stick puppet performance of it!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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