Strategies/Skills Used
Reading Strategy 7: Determine the most important ideas and events and the relationship between them.
Reading Strategy 9: Identify and interpret literary elements in different genres.
Reading Strategy 10: Summarize what has been read.
Reading Strategy 12: Reflect and respond.
Without teacher support:
(1) Ask students to retell the story or summarize the text (e.g. “Retell the story as if you were telling it to a friend who has never heard it.” “Tell me what this passage was about. What was important?” “What information did it give you?”)
With teacher support:
(1) If a student has difficulty, suggest how to start (e.g.“Once upon a time…”)
(2) If a student stops before the end of the story, or there is still more information to retell, encourage him/her to continue by asking “What comes next?”, “Then what?”,“Tell me more about…”,“Is there anything else you can remember?”
(3) If a student stops retelling and prompting doesn’t help, then ask questions relevant to specific points in the text.
(4) If a student is unable to retell, or the retelling lacks sequence and/or detail, prompt step by step by asking specific questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) about the story or text.
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