This worksheet is part of a larger unit, ’Retell Comprehension Strategy’ and provides an in-depth overview of the strategy ‘retell’. It includes five steps for remembering retell, examples of stories modelling the strategy, ideas to help remind students and numerous worksheets for practising the skill.
This unit is a great one to revisit throughout the year to remind students of the 5 finger retell rule and to revise the skill when necessary.
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Innovate on familiar texts through play
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently