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Preschool - 5th Grade Summarize and Retell Worksheets : Page 3

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Chapter Map

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #4

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

Three Little Pigs Story Map

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

Story Order: Case 2

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.

Sequencing to Summarize

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: Planting and Growing

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Nonfiction Text Summary Template

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

Fairy Tale Story Map

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

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Book Facts

After reading Jim Murphy&#39;s novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Book Study: The Great Fire: One Year After The Fire

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

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

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

In the second part of this story, a child observes the lead-up to a camping trip.

My Vacation (Part Two)

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

Glossary: Elements of Fairy Tales

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Re-imagining Narratives with Guest Characters

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

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Big Idea Summary

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