Retelling or Summarizing Narrative Nonfiction Texts

Retelling or Summarizing Narrative Nonfiction Texts

Let's Practice

Get out your Reading Writing Workshop book and turn to page 87.

Retell Nonfiction

Yesterday we read Families Work. Today we will summarize or retell what we read.

Open Ended

At the beginning of the reading we learned that Ellen the mom was a doctor and dad (Steve) was a firefighter.

These were the main ideas of the two paragraphs. So "Doctors work long hours", and "He rescues people from flames and smoke." are both ______________.

Open Ended

In the middle of the story, what did we learn? Or what was the main idea of the first paragraph on page 88?

Open Ended

What were some of the key details that we learned from the first paragraph on page 88?

Open Ended

What happened at the end of the reading? Or what what the main idea of the end section of reading?

Open Ended

If the main idea of the last section was "The family had to make a choice between two items. " What was one key idea from that section?

Multiple Select

What text feature(s) did the author use to help you as a read to gain more information? Check all that apply.

• captions

• table

• pictures

• map

Multiple Choice

When you retell a story or a nonfiction reading, do you need to tell every single little detail?

• Yes, because your listener needs to know everything about the reading.

• No, because you only need to tell the main ideas and key detail.

Poll

Now that we have looked closely at the passage "Families Work" do you think that you could retell the passage to someone?

• Yes

• No

• With some help