ELAGSE3RL2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Read Works

• Guide students in identifying the central message or moral of fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures

• Model retelling or recounting of a story, identifying the central message, lesson, or moral of the story using details from the text

• Differentiate between the recounting of a story (retelling giving back important facts and details in sequential order) and summarizing (only the big ideas)

• • Question: What is the difference between a retell (as seen in kindergarten and first grade reading literature standard 2) and a recount (as seen in second and third grade reading literature standard 2)?

Answer: A retelling is rememberd events from a story heard orally. A recount is the events in chronological order found in a text that the students have read. The difference being that a student has the text to refer back to aiding them to recount the events in order. In fourth grade this standard builds to the expectation of being able to summarize, narrowing the recount to only the main events in the text.