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📖 Kindergarten · ELAW.K.3Unit 10: Narrative writing & retelling

Small moments

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🎯 Objective: Students choose a small moment from their life to tell.

Lesson outline

  1. Model telling a small moment.
  2. Touch-and-tell planning across pages.
  3. Sketch pages.
  4. Exit: tell your story to a partner.

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

W.K.3

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

📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ 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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