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Five Finger Retell

Five Finger Retell
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Description

These 5 Finger Retell Hands give students a visual prompt to help them retell the main ideas within a fiction or non-fiction text. This will help them to identify the differences between these text types.

Students can decorate and cut out each hand which can then be laminated. Students can use these hands as prompts when orally retelling the main ideas in a fiction or non-fiction text. They can also be sent home to give students and parents a prompt when discussing texts read at home.
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLA03 9

Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts

AC9EFLY03 9

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

AC9E1LY03 9

Describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

ACELA1430 8.4

Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes

ACELY1648 8.4

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

ACELY1658 8.4

Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts

ENe-7B old

Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

ENE-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature read to them

ENE-PRINT-01 new

Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print

ENE-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

VCELA141

Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes

VCELY154

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

VCELY188

Describe some differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, and identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

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