Focus Lesson Planning Sheet
Focus Lesson Retelling – Sequencing Events from a story in
Order / Concepts of Print
Topic
Materials
Book: Pumpkin Pumpkin By: Jeanne Titherington
Chart paper, markers,
Connection
Yesterday we learned what a retelling is. Today I’m going to teach
how you to sequence the events from a story in the correct order.
Explicit
Instruction
Retelling is an important strategy that readers use when reading. It
helps us to think about what we are reading. An important thing
about retelling is to make sure that we tell the important events in
the correct order. Doing this helps us remember the story and
better understand what we’re reading about.
We can practice retelling not only with books but also with events
that happen in our own lives. Listen as I retell to you the events
that happened to me this morning.
Example: First I woke up to the sound of my alarm going off and I
got out of bed. Then, I brushed my teeth and took a shower. Next,
I went downstairs to make my lunch and breakfast. Lastly, I got in
my car and drove to school.
Ask students, what they noticed about my retelling. (That I put the
events in order)
Now, turn and talk to a partner and retell the events that happened
to you this morning. (You may ask for a few students to share their
retellings. Repeat student’s responses by inserting order words.)
Guided
Practice
Now I am going to read the story “Pumpkin Pumpkin” to you and
afterwards we are going to retell the events from this story in
order together.
Listen as I read the story.
When finished, hang up the following on a piece of chart paper. Put
each sentence in a different color. Use wrap around text.
Jamie planted a pumpkin ___. And the pumpkin seed grew a
pumpkin ___. And the pumpkin sprout grew a pumkpkin ___. The
pumpkin plant grew a pumpkin ___. The pumpkin flower grew a
pumpkin. The pumpkin ___ and ___ and ___ until Jamie ___ it.
Missing words written on the bottom of chart paper:
grew seed flower grew picked sprout plant grew
As a class, put the following words in sequence as you retell the
story. Call on individual students to come up and write the correct
word on line. Talk about the difference between picked and plant
and how you can be sure which word is which. (They have to look to
the middle and end of the word to be sure.) Casually point out –ou, ee, and –ew when they come up. You could hang this poster up and
revisit it when studying blends. Later on, have children circle words
with blends in it. .
Send Off [for
Independent
Practice]
During IR you should all practice retelling with your own books. At
group share, we will practice retelling a book from our book bag.
Group Share
Ask 1-2 students to retell a book from their book bag or have
children retell their book in a turn and talk.