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📖 Kindergarten · ELARL.K.2Unit 4: Stories: characters, setting & events

Beginning, middle and end

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🎯 Objective: Students retell the beginning, middle and end of a story.

Lesson outline

  1. Read aloud.
  2. Use three picture cards to sequence.
  3. Retell to a partner with a story glove.
  4. Exit: what happened at the end?

Lesson 3 of 6 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.K.2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify characters, setting and major events
  • Retell familiar stories with key details

✅ 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: Story retelling📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Stories: characters, setting & events”

  1. Who is in the story?
  2. Where does it happen?
  3. Beginning, middle and end
  4. Ask and answer questions
  5. Pictures and words
  6. Compare two stories

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