Story Retelling

Story Retelling is a reading strategy that is used by the teacher to test students’ skills in oral language and comprehension. The target audience for story retelling is grades PreK to 2. Children’s language is much simpler than adults’ language, so they are not required to repeat the story with words from the story that they don’t recognize. Students are required to determine the main idea and relevant details. They are also allowed to use drawings and other visual representation to help them retell the story. In order to be proficient in story retelling, students must satisfy the following criteria:

  1. Name and describe all the characters.
  2. Include specific details about the setting.
  3. Explain the problem and solution.
  4. Describe attempts to solve the problem (Contains recalling events in order).
  5. Identify the theme.

In our video we will talk about the three benefits of story retelling, when and how to use this instructional strategy, and model teaching story retelling to a grade one class. Please enjoy!

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