Nico’s Thankful Table — Thanksgiving Retelling Story — Grades K–2

Nico and his grandmother, Lola, shop at the farmers market, cook together, and welcome their neighbors to a Thanksgiving table full of food from many cultures. This free story helps K–2 English learners retell a story in order.

Read It. A 4-part story with full-color pages for display and black-and-white student pages to read and color. The story has no order words, so students figure out what happened first, next, then, and last.

Play It. Go Fish Retelling Cards: each story part has 3 cards — an order word, a picture, and a sentence. Students ask, “Do you have the Next card?” When all 4 sets are found, they lay them out and retell the story.

Retell It.

• Put It in Order: cut out 4 pictures and glue them in order.
• Retell the Story: say it, then write it, with a word bank and the frames First, Next, Then, Last.
• Each student page ends with a “How did I do?” self-check.

Learning Target: I can retell a story in order using key details.

Language Objective: I can say and write what happens in a story in order, using first, next, then, and last.

What’s included (17-page PDF):

• Teacher page with three support levels and Go Fish directions
• Story in color (4 pages) and black and white (4 pages)
• 12 Go Fish cards + card backs
• Put It in Order cut-and-glue page
• Retell the Story page
• Answer key
• Terms of Use, plus links to our free YouTube lessons (Main Idea, Asking and Answering Questions, and Finding the Gist)

Pairs well with our free Language Objective Posters for K–2 (Retelling).

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