Books That Facilitate Narrative Retelling And Summarizing

These are books with simple themes and repetitive language that makes it easy for children to retell and summarize the stories they read and hear. By retelling and summarizing, they can extract important ideas from what they have read, while coming to understand the text more deeply.
- Koala Lou by Mem Fox
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Napping House by Audrey & Don Wood
- The Snowy Day by Erza Jack Keats
- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak