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Expository Retelling Expectations 17-24

Expository Retelling

Book Levels 17-24

 

 

Question The Teacher Asks You…

How Do YOU Answer?

Topic

What is this book mainly about?

Tell what the story is mainly about.

 

Key Concepts

What are the most important ideas to remember 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?  

What did the author really want you to know?

HINT: a lot of times this tends to be based on the table of contents if there is one. 

Ex. – Not just Eagles, but this book is mainly about Eagles, where they live, what they eat and how they survive.

Details

What do you remember 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 the story remind you of? 

 

Has anything like this happened to you? Tell me about it.

 

How does this story remind you of other stories you have heard or read?

Make two connections to the story. You can tell:

ü       Something about you that is like the story

ü       Something you have read that is like the story

ü       Something you have seen or heard that is like the story.

Make sure you tell why they are alike.


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