![]() ![]() ✅ TIP: Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t worry, we have you covered! Start by providing your learners with short pieces of information accompanied with pictures. ![]() It will allow learners to focus on the salient information instead of vocabulary and concepts that should be known to them at their age. The reason for this? Your students might not have a strong enough working memory to remember all of the parts of the story.īuilding foundational knowledge through secret #1, vocabulary and secret #2, sequencing skills allow children to take off some of the informational load to help them to remember all of the parts of a story. Sometimes students are able to remember the beginning and the end of a story, while forgetting the middle part. Students need to be able to hold onto the presented information and then express that information in a logical manner. Working memory is a prerequisite skill for story retell. WHY IS WORKING MEMORY IMPORTANT FOR STORY RETELL? The ability to hold onto and manipulate information within a short period of time. This is a challenge in the area of working memory. Remember the student with the head-spinning story retell? Another culprit could be that they just cannot hold on to the information they read or heard from the story. ⭐️ Secret #3 : Foundations of Working Memory Try out the Back to School Story Retell Activities where students can learn and practice how to sequence routines and stories they experience at school! This can include pictures of everyday routines that a child might experience. ✅ TIP: When teaching sequencing, start with simple, sequencing pictures to help students to understand the logical order. YES, sequencing happens all day, everyday. For instance, first you need a fork, then you bring the food to your mouth and last you chew. That's not the only reason! Your students rely on sequencing in order to perform tasks that must be done in a specific order. It’s also a way for us to show what we know and have people understand us. Sequencing skills are important so that we are able to talk about things that happened in a cohesive manner. WHY DO YOUR STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO SEQUENCE? Once they know the vocabulary, it’s time to put it to good use and learn to sequence. Before students can sequence, they MUST understand secret #1, the vocabulary. Sequencing is knowing how to put ideas, information or pictures IN A LOGICAL ORDER. One culprit is that students may not understand the importance of a sequence. Have you ever asked a student to tell you about the story they just read, and their response leaves your head spinning? ⭐️ Secret #2: Foundational Sequencing skills To further engage your learners, the story retell activities come in a variety of seasonal and themed units as well! Try using our foundational story retell resource where students can practice identifying and using the terms beginning, middle, and end. □ ”What about the end?” ✅ TIP: Not sure how to implement teaching story retell vocabulary words with your students? Start by using pictures to identify these vocabulary terms. Once you’ve taught these terms, your students will be better equipped to answer your story retell questions because they know what you’re talking about. Student friendly definition: The part when the story is almost over.Student friendly definition: The center part of a story.Synonyms : First, At the start, In the beginning.Student friendly definition: The first part of a story.It’s helpful to expose and teach your learners words that have similar meanings AKA synonyms. My parents bought it for me for my birthday.□ Not every educator is going to use the same exact terms when it comes to story retell. QUESTION TIME: The following are some ideas for questions that can be asked at the end of this Show and Tell session.Ī. Before I finish I want to tell you Pink Postpet is very important to me.” When everything bores me, I hug and play with Pink Postpet. It has pink hair, a pink nose, pink ribbon and brown eyes. I like it the most because it is pretty and lovely. Everything is pink so its name is Pink Postpet. ![]() Today I want to show and tell you about this teddy bear. If no-one puts their hand up, just pick someone to ask the question. Try and make sure that at least 3 or 4 questions are asked. It is best not to keep them to a strict time limit but make sure they finish their talk with: “Any questions?” and “Any more questions?”. The students should try and speak about their favorite object for about a minute and at the end invite their friends to ask questions. This could be a teddy bear, watch, book, game, pictures of a holiday or a toy. Students are invited to bring a favorite object in from home to show their friends. ![]()
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