Retell the Story Activity
Using Retell the Story Activity,students read “Floppy Ears” aloud to students and then use the question chart to assess students ability to retell the story.
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How to teach Summarizing
Using Retell the Story Activity,students read “Floppy Ears” aloud to students and then use the question chart to assess students ability to retell the story.
Being able determine the summarize text that you are reading helps your students understand what they have read. This activity will help your student to make sure that they retell a full story.
Read “Floppy Ears” aloud to students and then use the question chart to assess students ability to recount or describe details from the story.
Other resources to use with this Retell the Story Activity
If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about summarizing.
Use this Note Taking and Summarizing Graphic Organizer as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this activity by reading a short book. Next, students share what happened first, next, then, and finally. Then, have students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students share their summary of their text. Once finished, students continue practicing reading their own texts and summarizing.
Be sure to check out more Summarizing Worksheets.
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