This worksheet can be coupled with the story mapping worksheets to assist students in writing a retell of the events in ‘Who Sank the Boat?’. Students identify the main events in the beginning, middle and end, to write their very own retell. This worksheet also includes a retell checklist to remind students of the core elements of a simple retell.
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
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
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
Innovate on familiar texts through play
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
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
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
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
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts