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Retelling Using Key Details Activity

Using Retelling Using Key Details Activity,students read Floppy Ears to retell the story by putting key events in order.

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How to teach Summarizing

Using Retelling Using Key Details Activity,students read Floppy Ears to retell the story by putting key events in order.

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. Discuss key details in the story. Discuss details in the story that are not important. Using the First, Next, Then, and Last retell cards, put the story in order. Use the other set of retell cards for more of a challenge.

Other resources to use with this Retelling Using Key Details 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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