Last week we began our new writing genre, Response to Literature. Our first lessons focused on responding by retelling the main events of a story. It is helpful for the students to begin learning how to retell by reenacting the story. Making characters seem real by giving them voices and by showing their movements can be a powerful aid to story comprehension, especially for struggling readers. Experiencing characters in such a concrete way helps young children make a personal connection to the literature. The students had a great time reenacting some of their favorite stories. Another lesson taught us how to effectively retell a story by drawing the events sequentially and putting them into a mural.
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