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- Retelling and Recounting Stories: Fables, Folk Tales, and Myths
- Teach The Retell/Recount Strategy.
- Differentiate Between Folk Tales, Fables, Myths, and Fictional Stories.
- Introduce Moral, Lesson, and Central messages.
- Practice The Text-Based Strategy.
- Let Them Practice in Many ways.
- Need Group Read-Alouds?
- Ready-Made Resources For Teaching Recount/Retell
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Here are the four standards we will be studying in this blog post: 1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. 2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2- Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate an understanding of their central message or lesson. 3. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2- Recount stor...
There are many important pieces of this standard. The first thing you need to focus on is teaching a student how to retell or recount a story. No matter what type of text they are reading, recounting/retelling are the two most important power verbs from the RL2 standards in first, second, and third grade. Create an anchor chart with a clear, 5-step...
After the students have a firm grasp on the retelling and recounting, then you can start to truly focus on the different types of fictional stories. Now, first-grade teachers, this is NOT required for you to teach, but it won’t hurt your firsties to learn different types of fictional stories. Second-grade teachers, you’re in charge of teaching folk...
Since this standard is so complex, it needed to have three parts. The third part to teach when doing the retell/recount standard is to focus on the lesson/moral/central message. This was always a difficult task to do because we have been teaching students to be so text-evidence based, but in many stories, the moral is not right there in black and w...
While part of this standard is not always text-based answers, the act of retelling does require students to use the text to find an answer. Looking back in the text after reading (more than once) is a very important strategy to use in retelling & recounting stories. As mentioned in Task #1 above, color coding really helped my students. Being able t...
I mentioned in the previous blog post on Asking and Answering questions how important it was to make sure you’re always changing up your daily activities to avoid students from checking out.
This is a list of six books for this literature standard, with affiliate links to Amazon. Key skills to hit- retelling/recounting, moral/lesson, folk tales, fables, myths 1. The Magic Hat by Mem Fox 2. A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon 3. The Ant and the Grasshopper by Luli Gray 4. Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes 5. Aesop’s Fa...
If you’re teaching Recounting & Retelling in your classroom and would like to plan without recreating the wheel, I have complete, no-prep units for you! Each unit comes with lesson plans, anchor charts, activities, graphic organizers, reading comprehension passages, interactive notebook pages, task cards, and an assessment! Teach your kiddos to rec...
Dive deeper into the techniques used to write a fantastic recount by watching this video.
Write a diary/recount as the boy. Detailing how he felt about the dog at first and how he feels now. Rewrite the film as a 3rd person narrative, working on narrative writing skills such as description and adding dialogue. Discuss why the boy feels the way he does about the dog.
