Curated OER
Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree
Third graders practice retelling stories. They read a story and work with a partner to discuss the key elements: characters, setting, events, beginning, and end. They assess one another as they retell the story. They rewrite the story in...
Curated OER
Essential Narrative Concepts
Students interact with the main concepts of a narrative text in the six lessons of this unit. The setting, prediction, retelling, sequencing, and the identification of the beggining, middle and end of a story are investigated.
Curated OER
Retelling a Story
Students fold paper into 8 boxes and number the boxes, then print the name of the story and their own name. They draw pictures of what they think the story might be about.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Camp Paws and Claws: Pets
This multi-day series of lessons will engage students in reading and listenting comprehension strategies related to books about animals. Students will retell, dramatize, and illustrate their new animal knowledge.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act: 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
This activity engages students in story retelling to Eric Carle's book, The Tiny Seed. Students will participate in interactive storytelling as they write sentences and illustrate pictures about seed travel.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Predict and Clarify With the Old Woman & Her Pig
This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Margaret Read McDonald's book, The Old Woman & Her Pig. Students will participate in making predictions, clarifiying understanding, and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo
This instructional activity students will listen to an African folktale, Abiyoyo. Students will engage in role-playing to retell Abiyoyo through the use of reader's theater.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Music Magic
This lesson engages students in retelling. Students will participate in listening to various songs and stories. Then students will practice retelling and dramatizing the songs and stories.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man
Introduce your primary students to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Going With the Flow (Map)
Students will practice retelling a story using a flow map. This lesson includes thorough directions, materials, and a video called Bear's Shadow.
The Balanced Literacy Diet
The Balanced Literacy Diet: Interactive Story Retelling
The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having students sequence the events in a story using pictures and then retell the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fairy Tales Collection
A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Being Kind Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (October 12th), we're learning how to share positive interactions with others.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Gratitude Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, we are learning about how expressing our gratitude shows others how we feel when they help us.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Family Storytelling Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, we are learning about how our family changes and stays the same over time.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Go Luna: Around the World
Travel around the world with this collection of activities from Let's Go Luna! From making postcards and present tags to dressing up your favorite characters in winter outfits, your child will be introduced to social-emotional and social...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Arts and Craft
Join Daniel Tiger and his friends in this collection of fun, printable activities! From creating puppets and Kindness Loops (just like in the show!) to making thoughtful cards for friends, these worksheets will encourage your child's...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Activity Starters
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Grande O Pequeno? Lo Podemos Clasificar Todo!
Encuentre lo que es similar y lo que es diferente mientras exploran objetos.
Sacred Text Archive
"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod
This is a Victorian era retelling of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Useful for getting a grip on the plot, or for comparison of language.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Key Ideas and Details: Retell Stories
Read a passage to discover how to retell a story then practice what you've learned.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Retell Events
Retelling a story shows a student's comprehension. Use this site to test your knowledge of how to retell events that happen in a story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Study With Henry and Mudge
Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...