Students, while silently reading the book, "Mr. Pilling's Pond," by Patricia Nikolina Clark, and "One Good Turn," by Bette Anne Rieth, discuss how to summarize each book. They review the five steps to summarization and write them down.

Learners summarize a text selection of their choice. After a brief, written demonstration of summarizing, students read a selection of their choice. With a partner, they summarize what they have read in their own words and create a...

Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...

Retelling a story shows a student's comprehension. Use this site to test your knowledge of how to retell events that happen in a story.

In this lesson, the teacher reads a story aloud and young scholars work with a partner to retell the story using sentence starters. Includes downloadable poster.

PDF page from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training that contains suggestions for helping students retell things they have read or seen. It includes some suggestions for how to achieve this as well as a...

In this lesson plan pupils will examine and better understand a story by making a story pyramid. Pyramid gives students a structure for retelling a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and up, could be adapted for younger pupils.

This website from England explains the role of myth and legend in every culture and gives many reasons for the importance of the retelling in myth, especially to children. There are links to other interesting spots on the general website.

This site provides a collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling. Teachers can also view and use the links that contain online lesson plans and activities.

The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved with retelling activities, including writing a narrative and dramatic play.

A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...

Use this site to get students interested in and enthusiastic about storytelling with these cool instructional activity ideas. Look through these short descriptions of instructional activity ideas to help develop a instructional activity...

A retelling of Henry Hudson's historic voyage to New York in 1609, and up the river that would eventually bear his name.

As you watch this modern story of Rumpelstiltskin, take note of the characters, setting, and what happens in the story. Check out the additional activities below for the classroom and home, and watch the "Guided Viewing" version for...

A brief retelling of the colonial slave uprising, known as Stono's, or the Stono, Rebellion.

A brief retelling of the colonial slave uprising, known as Stono's, or the Stono, Rebellion.

This is an adaptation of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" in text format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will hear a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Students can record their retelling of Lon PoPo. There are two sites to learn more about the author of Lon PoPo, Ed Young. Students will then...

Links more than a hundred African folktales from Nigeria, South Africa, Zulu, West Africa, and more.

Carrie-Jo Taylor is a widely read Canadian Mohawk writer and artist whose storybooks retell native legends and stories. This is an excellent and thorough interview with her from 1998.

Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.

Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with...

Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten. Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...