Retell

Retelling a Story

January 27, 2023

You will need your figurative language anchor chart.

Poll

How was your Thursday night?

Poll

When we are retelling the story, should we retell the entire thing word for word?

• Yes

• No

Retelling the first page

• Who-Kitoto

• What-searches for food

• But-barley escapes the claws of a hawk that wants him for lunch

• How- hides in a bush

• A little mouse named Kitoto searches for food on the Savannah. He barely escapes the claws of a hawk who is trying to make Kitoto his lunch. Kitito never learned how to dig a burrow to hide in, so he has great difficulty protecting himself, so he hides in a bush.

Multiple Choice

Who are the characters?

• Jill and Bill

• Phill and Lil

• Bob and Jane

Multiple Choice

What is the setting?

• school

• woods

• pond

Multiple Choice

What was the problem?

• They got lost.

• They fell in the pond.

• Their hats flew away.

Multiple Choice

What happened in the beginning?

• They went to the woods.

• Their hats flew away.

• They went home.

Multiple Choice

What happened in the middle?

• They went into the woods.

• They tried to find the hats.

• They went home.

Multiple Choice

What happened in the end?

• They went into the woods.

• They went home.

• They tried to find their hats.

Multiple Choice

What was the solution?

• They had to tell their mom.

• They went looking for the hats.

• They found their hats.