RETELLING A STORY: READING STRATEGIES & LESSONS TO USE YEAR LONG

Retelling a story involves summarizing the main events, characters, and important details of a story in your own words. It is a valuable reading strategy that helps students to comprehend and analyze what they have read. Retelling a story is also an effective way to help students develop their speaking and listening skills.

By incorporating these reading strategies and lessons into daily instruction, teachers can help students develop their ability to retell a story and improve their comprehension skills. These skills are critical for success in all areas of academics and in life.

This 30 page ready-to-use ELA resources unit include strategies and lessons for retelling/summarizing you can use all year long.

It includes:

. 5 Finger Retelling Hand options

. Fiction Retelling broken down by each story element and then brought together with graphic organizer and summarizing.

. Non-Fiction retelling emphasizing main idea, details, vocabulary and retelling using the 5 W's