Standard: K.RL.2 – With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Grade level: Kindergarten
Subject: English Language Arts
Domain: Reading: Literature
Teacher Overview
This standard focuses on helping Kindergarten students retell familiar stories, including key details, with prompting and support. It is crucial as it lays the foundation for comprehension skills that will be built upon in later grades. Students should be able to listen attentively and recall simple events from stories. They should also understand basic story elements like characters and settings.
Students will move on to identifying main ideas and key details in more complex texts and comparing different stories and their elements.
Common Misconception 1
Some students may think that retelling a story requires them to repeat it exactly as it was told to them. This is incorrect because retelling focuses on summarizing the story in their own words while capturing the essential details.
Intervention 1
Use activities that encourage summarization, such as asking students to describe the story to a partner or drawing key scenes and explaining them.
Common Misconception 2
Another common misconception is that only the beginning and end of the story are important. This is incorrect because the middle of the story often contains critical events that are essential to understanding the narrative.
Intervention 2
Guide students through the story by asking them to identify and discuss key events in each part of the story: beginning, middle, and end.
Prerequisite Knowledge
Students should have basic listening skills and the ability to recall simple events from stories read to them. They should also be familiar with common story elements like characters, settings, and major events.
Subsequent Knowledge
After mastering this standard, students will develop the ability to identify the main idea and key details in more complex texts. They will also begin to compare and contrast different stories and their elements.
Instructional Activities
- Read a familiar story and ask students to retell it in their own words.
- Use storyboards to help students sequence events.
- Have students act out parts of the story to reinforce understanding.
- Create a story map that includes characters, setting, and key events.
- Pair students to retell stories to each other.
