Help students to successfully retell by having them fill out the retelling template as they read! It's a great resource to use along with Lucy Calkins Writing units as it makes the connection between Fiction and Mystery Reading. All templates are aligned with the Common Core Standards, and the skills that students are expected to learn! Fiction: -Retelling Fiction Stories (both with a scaffolded retelling and without) -Character Traits -Identifying the Theme Mystery: -Retelling Mystery Stories (both with a scaffolded retelling and without) -Gathering Suspects and Clues Non-fiction: -Retelling Non-Fiction Stories (both with a scaffolded retelling and without) -Retelling Biographies (both with a scaffolded retelling and without) Also included is paper with extra lines for kids that need more space!
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This is a fun game to play with a pair of dice. Read a story and help recall the various features of the story with this creative activity.
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Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by our blog to see what's happening in our first grade classroom! This week we are working very hard on "retelling"stories we have read. Learning how to retell a story helps our little learners as readers and thinkers. It helps to organize thought, and recognize the thoughts we have during reading. It helps us recognize when our thinking changes throughout our reading. Characteristics of good retelling are: using character names, telling about the setting, including the happenings or plot (beginning, middle, and end), discussing the problem the character is having, and describing how the problem was solved. Today I introduced our "retelling rope." Each symbol represents the parts of a story. I have used retelling ropes before, but revamped this with some better visuals. The kids really get it when they can actually manipulate the parts. This year I wrote a simple poem to go along with our retelling activities. We practiced retelling several stories together using the large retelling rope, and then the kids got to make their own mini one to manipulate during their own reading time. After putting these together, some kids chose to work with others to retell a common story (The Lorax has become a favorite for some reason :) !) We also practiced recording our retelling thoughts. We will continue to work hard on this important skill! When I read a story! For your printable of these pages plus larger visuals to make your own retelling rope click here! :) here's the link to the printable with student rope pics! :) Or click here! :) I love helping kids improve their retelling skills!! Don't forget to retell your own stories with your kids!!! Stop by again soon!! Joyfully! Nancy
We've been up to our ears these past few weeks with traditional literature (and LOVING it!), and this week we have been working on summarizing and writing a summary of literary texts. I'm a huge fan of my anchor chart: I think the triangle is what I like most. I love how my students can visually see the differences in size and sentences when telling the topic, main idea, summary, and retelling the story. I'm sure most of you have seen the "Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then" organizer for summarizing. I also included "Finally," which I can't claim as an original thought. I'm pretty sure I saw it on Pinterest last year. What I like about including "Finally" is that it gives you the option to add a final detail to wrap it all up. I snapped the above pic before I was done making the anchor chart. I added parentheses around the word "Finally" to show that it's an option, but you don't always need it. Example: we practiced summarizing with Stone Soup and Town House Country Mouse. With Stone Soup, we needed the "Finally," but with Town Mouse Country Mouse, we didn't. Here's the graphic organizer I used: Click the pic to get a copy :) What I like most about it is the lines at the bottom to write the summary. The first day, we read Stone Soup, filled in the "Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then, (Finally)" together and orally "wrote" our summary. The second day, I read Town Mouse, Country Mouse to the bunnies and they filled in the top portion with a partner. I was going to have them write the summary with their partner, but they gave me that "Whaaaaaa?????" look, so we wrote it together and the bunnies copied it down. At first I was a little discouraged that my students couldn't take the info in the graphic organizer and write a 2-3 sentence summary, but then I realized we've never done this before, and I need to give them a break! I like that we wrote it together, so my students could see what a quality summary looks like. (Sorry I didn't snap a pic, and I'm too brain fried this Friday to try to remember what it was!) My plan for next week is to do the same thing we did today (I read aloud, students fill out the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then, (Finally), and we write the summary together). Then on Tuesday I'll read again and the bunnies will complete the whole page with a partner. I have the book Snow Queen (the inspiration for the movie Frozen, which happens to be Traditional Lit!) on order at the public library, so hopefully it will be in by Tuesday! Then I will use this graphic organizer as homework for my guided reading groups. These kiddos will be summarizing SUPER STARS by the end of the year, I'm sure of it!!
Stop on over and get a First, Next, Then, Last Graphic Organizer- Can be used for Retelling Stories with ordinal words or for a pre-writing activity. You Might Also Like:Free Printable Graphic Organizers for ReadingGraphic Organizers for Informational TextGraphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension – Perfect for Any Book!Free Read Aloud List for 3rd and 4th ... Read More about First, Next, Then, Last Graphic Organizer
This is an Art lesson for Highschool Art Students on Working with Composition. It can be used for any grades and comes with a presentation, A notes sheet so students can take their own notes and a short assessment piece.
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Use pictures of events from fairy tales for students to practice speaking and writing about. A sorting mat with sequencing words is included for students to retell the story in sequential order. There are two levels of no-prep graphic organizers with the same pictures one with and one without with a word bank. There is also a blank graphic organizer and separate page of mixed up pictures for students to cut apart, sequence and glue. Questions and sentence starters are also included to guide students conversations. There is a writing page with pictures for students to retell the fairy tale. Six fairy tales are included: Stone Soup, Peter Pan, The Frog Prince, Aladdin, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Pied Piper. There are perfect for ELL learners to practice oral language and writing skills. Get this as a part of a money saving bundle. **This is part of my Speak then Write Retelling Bundle** ***This is also part of my Speak then Write Mega Bundle for an additional discount****
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This is a fun hands on activity to get students to retell a story. It can be completed as a workstation activity or as a whole class activity. Students reach in the jar or and pull out at least one of each color (or as many as instructed) or pick cards from the ring. Some circle colors can be used more than once. Students then complete the blank circle sheets to match their circle cards. Colored circles are then glued onto a string or ribbon. Strings can be displayed around the classroom! Included in this download: *Cover *Instructions *Photos of assembled product *30 Circle cards (Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution, Events, Skills, and Strategies) *Blank circle templates *Jar label and directions *Ring label and directions *Circle card color code sheets *Credits
A writing template to help children when structuring text types.
Earlier this month, I shared a mnemonic I use with my 2nd and 3rd graders for teaching story elements. This mnemonic is part of a larger strategy called 'Picture It!,' developed by Victoria Naughton (2008). Each letter of S.T.O.R.Y. represents a story element, and students can use the graphic mnemonic for identifying and visualizing the common features of fiction texts. Learn more about this great strategy here! S.T.O.R.Y. Poem Many people make up a silly stories or poems to increase retention. I am one of those people. :) According to Brain Training 101's article How to Improve Your Memory, 'A mnemonic device, such
Hello Everyone! I almost forgot to post one other thing. I have had a ton of questions and e-mails about my story retelling rope that I posted on last year.You can read about that here! :) I have been doing retelling ropes for a long time. Does anybody remember "Project Read?" The author of that amazing curriculum was my inspiration for this way of teaching kids about the parts of a story and extending that into retelling. "Retelling" is an important component of discriminating comprehension in our beginning readers. Making it hands on is important to me! Kids almost always cement learning better when they can incorporate as many senses as possible. I took some time to redo my retelling rope icons, my retelling poem, made some little posters about the parts of a story, and redid my anchor chart. Here are some pics of what this little unit includes. Here are some pics of finished products, anchor chart and student retelling rope. For your free mini unit on retelling grab the rope and click here! I hope this helps with your lessons on retelling!! Hold on and have fun!! Joyfully! Nancy
Four effective approaches for teaching reading comprehension strategies to 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.
