Map the story
After reading, have kids fill a story map with characters, setting, problem, key events and solution. Then they use only the map to retell the story to a partner. If the retell falls apart, the map is missing something.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
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