Kindergarten Retell What Happened worksheets

About this worksheet

Retelling means holding onto the important events of a story and giving them back in an order that makes sense. Kindergarten children may remember the funniest or most colorful moment but skip the beginning, repeat an event, or reverse cause and result. This worksheet uses very short stories with concrete actions. Each story is printed above its questions and is read aloud once, and every event has its own picture, so your child circles a picture rather than reading a phrase.

Support stories have three events. Standard and challenge stories have four, and challenge questions ask which event came second or third. Read the story aloud from beginning to end before your child answers, then let them look at the pictures. If the order is confusing, act out the actions with hands or small objects. Listen for the time words first, next, and last rather than expecting a polished oral summary.

What your child will learn

• Recall the important actions in a very short story
• Use first, next, and last to describe event order
• Choose the middle event between a beginning and ending
• Retell without adding an unrelated event

Common Core standard: RL.K.2