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Retell the Tale!

Retell the Tale!
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Description

This worksheet helps students practise story sequencing and summarising. Kindergarteners use pictures, Year 1 students write simple sentences, and Year 2 students create a structured summary and explore perspective. Differentiated activities support comprehension, logical sequencing, and storytelling skills. Fast-finisher tasks extend critical thinking and creativity.

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLE02 9

Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters

AC9EFLY02 9

Interact in informal and structured situations by listening while others speak and using features of voice including volume levels

AC9E1LY02 9

Use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions

AC9E2LY02 9

Use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions

ACELT1577 8.4

Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators

ACELT1783 8.4

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts

ACELY1646 8.4

Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations

ACELY1784 8.4

Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact

ACELY1656 8.4

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions

ACELY1788 8.4

Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace

ACELY1789 8.4

Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately

ACELY1666 8.4

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions

ENe-10C old

Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts

ENe-1A old

Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction

EN1-1A old

Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations

ENE-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

VCELT170

Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators

VCELT171

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts

VCELY174

Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations using interaction skills, including listening, while others speak

VCELY210

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions, taking turns and recognising the contributions of others

VCELY244

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions through initiating topics, making positive statements, and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner

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