Mrs. Quigley's Class
  • Our Classroom
    • Expectations >
      • Behavior
      • PBIS >
        • What is it?
        • CHAMPS in the Classroom
        • PBIS at Home
      • Homework
    • Daily Schedule
  • Weekly Focus Words
    • Week 2 Frog and Toad
  • Curriculum
    • Math >
      • Addition and Subtraction Strategies
      • Websites
    • Language Arts >
      • Reading >
        • Good Fit Books
        • Daily 5 Strategies >
          • Comprehension >
            • Ask Questions
            • Back Up and Reread
            • Check For Understanding
            • Infer and Support
            • Main Idea and details
            • Make a Picture
            • Monitor and Fix Up
            • Predict and Confirm
            • Reading the Pictures
            • Recognize Literary Elements
            • Retell the Story
            • Summarizing
          • Accuracy >
            • Blend Sounds, Stretch and Reread
            • Chunk Sounds Together
            • Cross Checking
            • Flip the Sound
            • Reading the Pictures
            • Skip the Word-What Makes Sense?
            • Trade a Word
            • Use Beginning and Ending Sounds
          • Fluency >
            • Adjust and Apply Reading Rates
            • Good Fit Books
            • Practice Sight Words
            • Reread Text
          • Expand Vocabulary >
            • Ask For the Definition
            • Tune Into Interesting Words
            • Use Pictures, Illustrations and Diagrams
            • Use Prior Knowledge and Context Clues
            • Voracious Reading
      • Word Study >
        • Weekly Homework
        • Spot and Dot
        • Word Sorting
    • Social Studies
  • Newsletters
  • MAP Resources
  • Resources & Links
  • Symbaloo
  • Summer Suggestions
I’m working on comprehension!  My strategy is Retell the Story

Secret to Success

Think about what you are reading. Stop and reread if you can’t remember.
One way to teach students how to remember story sequence and character elements in the story is by using words such as first, next, then, last, and finally.


What you can say or model

Model this with children during read-alouds.  In school we use the Retell Rope. This technique is commonly used by storytellers, and we use it to help students focus and remember the story.  We hold a rope knotted 8 times.  Each knot represents one thought from the story. We tell the class that when we come to each knot, it will remind us to state the next event from the story. At home you can also use a Retell Rope or ask some of the following questions:

  •  “Who were the main characters?”
  •  “What problem did the main characters experience?”
  •  “How was the problem solved?”
  • “How did the story end?”
  •  “What happened first, next, and last?”

Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.