Retelling activities

MAP & BINOCULAR CRAFT to go with the story, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (and FREE story retelling printable)~ BuggyandBuddy.com

Teach children about emotions with activities to identify, express, and manage their feelings appropriately in school with these tips!

THE BEST January Preschool Themes with Lesson Plans and Preschool Activities, These Fun January Preschool Activities explore winter, BEARS, Winter Animals, Nature, Penguins, Snow and so much more. Preschoolers will enjoy these fun hands on activities with monthly winter themes that include List of Themes for Preschool, January Holidays, Preschool Activities, and Preschool Lesson Plans for the Year

Story Retell Box for Book, The Mitten by Jan Brett (from Speech Room News)

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this adorable and easy to make hat! Students will love being creative and wearing this silly groundhog hat to celebrate the end or continuation of winter.

We have been working on retelling in our classroom. This is always such a difficult skill for my first graders. I created this retelling chart to hang from my ceiling and my students love it! We have also used this sheet to fill out information about our story. Head on over to my blog to download the chart and the retell sheet.

Another week down and I am still wiped! There is no kind of tired like teacher tired at the beginning of the year! { For sure!} I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to showcase my week. We focused on colors. There are so many good books and ideas out there about colors. It was hard to try to narrow down my activities. These are what I ended up with. We read 'Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?' To retell the story using these adorable bear puppets. The littles loved them! I got them…

A fun why for students to summarize and retell a story or modify to use with nonfiction texts

One of the things I miss most about teaching first grade is Polar Express week. I have so many fond memories of Polar Express fun. At the b...

As we continue working with compare and contrast this week in the classroom... this is a fun activity to compare/contrast the Big Bad Wol...