For the past few days we have been working on the reading comprehension strategy of "Retelling the story". This is proving to be quite difficult for many of us so we will be slowing it down and working through it together. Students can retell when they are reading a fictional text at their independent reading level, which they all are with their guided reading books. Retelling helps readers to think about what is happening in the story and to assess their and others' understanding of the story. It is important to not recall and list every detail that happens in the story but rather the main, important events. We have started with the framework of a High 5 Story Recall to help them remember what to include. There are also words that we can start our sentences with to make sure we don't repeatedly say "and then" "and then". Here is the visual that we will be using for the next little bit while we practice this strategy.
Beginning readers can just use the First (beginning), Next (middle), and Then (ending) sentence prompts to get started as it can be overwhelming to do more than that. As students are reading with Raz kids and their Learning Commons books they could practice retelling out loud in words or writing a response journal.
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