How To Retell a Story For Kids
2 min1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
How to retell a story in your own words -- naming the characters and setting and telling the events in order from beginning to end.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Retelling means telling a story in your own words, in order.
- What should you include when you retell a story?
- Why is order important in a retell?
- What are the beginning, middle, and end of a story you read?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: retell, order, key details
- Retell a story to a partner using first, next, then, last.
- Name the characters and setting in your retell.