Expository Retelling

Book Levels 7-16

Question The Teacher Asks You…

How Do YOU Answer?

Topic

What is this book mostly about?

Tell what the story is mainly about.

Don’t tell all the details, only the most important things to know about this topic.

Can you wrap the whole book up into a sentence or two?

Ideas, Details

What does the book tell us about __________?

Tell about the most important details in the book.

Can you tell them in the order they were presented?

Use and explain any key vocabulary words you read about.

Connections To Personal Experience or Prior Knowledge

What does this book make you think about? 

What did you already know about this topic?

Tell what this books makes you think of.  Perhaps something:

ü       That has happened to you before

ü       You have read

ü       You have seen or heard

Tell what you already knew about this topic.