Lesson 7 - Alexander’s Outing (beginning, middle, and end)
Learning Intention:
We are learning to explore stories using actions and to retell stories using story maps and pictures.
Success Criteria:
Students can:
face the reader so you can see information in a book.
retell stories, poems, songs, and rhymes (some parts as exact repetition and some in their own words).
follow instructions (up to two parts spoken).
recall important events in a text.
use drawing to support writing.
Discussion:Who can recall the characters and events in Alexander’s Outing?
When retelling a story, a summary of events can make it quicker to tell someone what happened.
A summary is where you retell the main point or events from a story.
A story can be summarised into 3 parts: a beginning, middle and end.
A beginning, middle or end can be made up of different events. For example, the first 6 pages make up the beginning.
Think-pair-share: Retell Alexander’s Outing with a beginning, middle and end. Ask students to think about what happened in the beginning of Alexander’s Outing.
Guide students to retell using the sentence starter ‘In the beginning of the story...’ Repeat using ‘In the middle of the story...,’ and ‘At the end of the story...’.
Select 2 to 3 students to share their retelling.
Draw, Talk, Share, Write
Activity: students choose one of the sentence starters from above. ‘In the beginning of the story...’ Repeat using ‘In the middle of the story...,’ and ‘At the end of the story...’. and draw a picture of an event from the story.
Resource 5: Alexander’s Outing beginning, middle, and end sentences