Reading Comprehension
Appropriate Grade Level: Kindergarten and up.
Procedures/Steps: Retellings are oral recalls in which the child can relate to the information from what they remember. The following are steps for paired retellings…
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Ask students to select at trade book to read on their own silently or through paired reading.
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Have students work in pairs to reconstruct the text. Each student in the groups can retell while the other listens for half. Vice Versa
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Instruct students to listen carefully to one another as they retell. Older students can record what they heard on a piece of paper.
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After each pair of students has retold, they can look back at the text and compare it with the ideas that have either been discussed or recorded.
Comments and/or tips: To begin this particular lesson, it is advised to review sequential text signal words followed by the students reading the text silently.
Source:
Moss, B. (2004). Teaching expository text structures through information trade book retellings. Reading Teacher, 8, 710-718.