This Retell Roadmap is an open-ended template to be used with all the various stories you read in your classroom. Students simply follow the roadmap to write about the beginning, middle and end.
Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
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, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
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
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
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
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
Construct texts using software including word processing programs