Retell the Story is a free printable Kindergarten English worksheet on telling a story back with its key parts, aligned to Common Core standard RL.K.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 18 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 13 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 18 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Retell the Story
RL.K.2
NameDate
Read the story, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Where Is Pepper?
Pepper the cat was gone. Lily looked in the box. No Pepper. She looked under the bed. No Pepper. She looked behind the door. There was Pepper, fast asleep in a sock drawer.
1. Tell the story in your own words. What happened?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Top Shelf
Mia wanted the blue cup. It was on the top shelf. Mia could not reach it. She pulled a chair over, but the chair was still too low. Then her big brother came in. He lifted the cup down for her. "Thank you," said Mia.
1. Tell the story in your own words. What happened?
LessonPrint · RL.K.2 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Retell the Story
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Lily looked in three places for Pepper the cat and found her asleep in a sock drawer.
2.1. Mia could not reach the blue cup on the top shelf, the chair was too low, and her brother lifted it down.
More practice for RL.K.2
Retell a well-known story in your own words, keeping the important parts.
Teaching this next? Retelling a Familiar Story is the 30-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.