strategy 5:
Story retelling
What is it? Teachers sit one on one with students and have them retell the story they have just read or listened to. Purpose? Teachers use story retelling to monitor children's reading comprehension. It is an instructional tool as well as an assessment tool. Children expand their oral language. Implementation: Story retelling is a process that should be modelled first. Students will not be good at it immediately, and it is easier to comprehend the retelling of those who understood what they read than those who don't. Steps: 1. Introduce the story. The teacher begins by reading the title, giving the author and illustrator names, perhaps giving some background information related to the story. Children are informed that they will be retelling the story afterward. 2. Read and discuss the story. Children read the story or listen to it read aloud, when they’re reading the story themselves it’s essential that the story’s at their reading level. Afterward, they talk about the story, sharing ideas and clarifying confusions. 3. Create a graphic organizer. Children create a graphic organizer or a series of drawings to guide their retelling. 4. Retell the story. Teachers ask children to individually retell the story in their own words, asking questions if necessary, to elicit more information. 5. Mark the scoring guide. Teachers mark a scoring guide as the child retells the story; the scoring guide lists important information about characters and events in the story, usually organized into beginning, middle, and end sections. As they list to the retellings, teachers mark off everything the child recalls. If the child omits important information, the teacher places a P beside it, and gives the child prompts to help him or her remember. |
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