Story Retelling

Grade: 1
Rationale: I am teaching this lesson so that students can learn how to summarize a text. Being
able to summarize will help students to only describe key details of the text and will allow them
to become better readers and story tellers. This also will ensure that they have understood the
important points of a story.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story,
using key details.
Objective(s):
SWBAT
retell the story
identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story
identify key characters and the setting of the story
identify the problem and solution of the story
Materials:
story retelling rope worksheet
story retelling worksheet
story retelling rope (large class chart)
It Zwibble and the Greatest Cleanup Ever by WereRoss and WerEnko (book)
Procedures:
Introduction
1. I will introduce the book to the students. This book is about a cleanup, and since we are
learning about Earth day it is the perfect fit for out class today.
2. I will then read the book to the class.
Group Instruction
3. Then, I will have students turn their attention to the story retelling chart I have begun to
create. Each picture represents a piece of the story. We will continue filling out the chart
as a class.
4. I will explain to the class that retelling a story does not mean telling someone the entire
story all over again. It means that we only tell them the parts of the story that matter for
the listener to understand our story.
5. I will be sure to tell the class that these are the really important parts of a story that will
help us to retell the story to our friends or our family members. This will allow us to
retell the story without having to remember every single thing that happened in the story.
Independent Practice

6. Students will return to their seats and will complete a similar story retelling rope
worksheet. They will need to identify the setting, main characters, the problem, the
beginning, middle, end and the solution of the story.
Assessment: My assessment of this lesson for students will be the worksheet. Students are being
asked to retell the story themselves. If they are able to do this, only giving the important pieces
of information needed, I will know that they have grasped the concept of retelling a story.