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📖 Kindergarten · ELARL.K.2Unit 10: Narrative writing & retelling

Retell a favorite story

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🎯 Objective: Students retell a familiar story with key details using props.

Lesson outline

  1. Story retelling props.
  2. Practice with a partner.
  3. Perform for the class.
  4. Exit: what happened first?

Lesson 4 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.K.2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Draw and write events in order
  • Use words like first, next, last
  • Retell stories in sequence

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

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More lessons in “Narrative writing & retelling”

  1. Small moments
  2. First, next, last
  3. Feelings in stories
  4. Retell a favorite story
  5. Year-end reading celebration

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