Snowy Day

Winter is underway in Kindergarten. The children have been reading The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. 

Click here to watch a reading of the story.

We have been learning different reading strategies such as visualizing, making connections, and opinion.  The children have been working hard.

Next, the students have continued to sequence and retelling the story events.  Ask your child to retell the story!

The children had fun sequencing the events of the stories using these picture cards as a whole group!

CCSS

RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. 

RL.K.2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. .

RL.K.3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

W.K11. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book.

The Three Bears

The children have begun reading various versions of The Three Bears.  Our first story was written by Paul Galdone.  We are working on story elements: setting, characters, problem and solution.
The children were introduced to the retelling rope.  The retelling rope helps children to know the parts of a story. The HOUSE represents the setting. The CHILDREN represent the characters in the story. The KNOT is the problem of the story. Retelling the story starts with B for Beginning, M for the middle of the story, E ends the story. Finally, the BOW is the solution.  How did the story end? Next, the children worked on Book Nooks which focused on the setting and the characters.

We are going to continue comparing different versions of the The Three Bears and making text to text connections.  What are text to text connections?  It is comparing two stories (using the retelling rope) and making connections between them with differences and similarities. Coming up next... retelling!!!  Look for the next post! RL.K2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. 

RL.K3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

Sequencing and Retelling

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This week during our Reader's Workshop, we are reading The Little Old Woman Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything written by Linda Williams.  The students are working on sequencing and retelling the story events with details.  First, we used picture cards to sequence the story in order.  Then the children got to practice putting the pictures in sequence after they colored and cut.  Finally, the children placed them in the correct order of the story.  Then, the children practiced retelling the story with their own picture cards.  After the children colored, they were able to share with their elbow partners to retell the story in order.  We are beginning to use the language "first, next, and then".

The next time you are reading a story with your child, ask them these questions: What happened first in the story?
Tell me what happened in the middle of the story?

How did the story end?

Can you retell the story using as many details as possible?
*Remember to encourage your child to use the sequencing words: first, next, and then.