In this exciting mini lesson, students will have a great time as they learn all about story sequencing and practice retelling a story! This can be a stand alone or support lesson for your English Language Learners.
Students will be able to retell stories by sequencing text and images.
Language
I can retell a story with transition words using sentence frames.
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Access students' prior knowledge by displaying a familiar picture book and asking students to remind you what the story is about.
Explain that they just helped you "retell" the story, this means they reminded you of what happened in the story in the correct order.
Point to the familiar book. Remind students that the words in a book are written by a person called the author and that the pictures are made by a person called the illustrator. Point out the author and illustrator in the familiar picture book.
Tell students that today you will be paying attention to how the words and pictures tell a story from the beginning to the end, or in order.