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📖 1st Grade · ELARL.1.1Unit 3: Key details & retelling stories

Ask questions while reading

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🎯 Objective: Students ask who, what, where, when, why questions about a story.

Lesson outline

  1. Think-aloud during a read-aloud: “I wonder why the bear is hiding.”
  2. Introduce question words: who, what, where, when, why, how.
  3. Partners roll a question cube and ask/answer about a page.
  4. Exit: one question and its answer from the story.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RL.1.1

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Ask and answer questions about key details
  • Retell stories including key details and the central message

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Key details in stories📖 Story dice📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Key details & retelling stories”

  1. Ask questions while reading
  2. Key details
  3. Retelling in order
  4. Central message
  5. Reading a passage closely

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