14 (C): Retell Expository Text

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
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10(C) discuss the ways authors group information in text	14 (C) retell the order of events in a text by referring to the words and/illustrations	14(C) describe the order of events or ideas in a text	13 (C) identify explicit cause and effect relationships among ideas in texts	11(C) describe explicit and implicit relationships among ideas in texts organized by cause-and-effect, sequence, or comparison	10(C) explain how different organizational patterns (e.g., proposition-and –support ,  problem-and-solution)develop the main idea and the author’s viewpoint.
Retell the order of  events in a text by referring to the words Retell the order of  events in a text by referring to illustrations

Activities:

• Use retelling cards of stories from Treasures to retell a story
• Use sequencing Thinking Map to retell stories by placing pictures in order.  This can lead into a writing lesson.
• During Guided Reading: when students finish their book have them turn and tell their neighbor about the story (make sure they re-tell in order from beg to end).
• Science: retell the steps to a science experiment/process.

Anchor Stations:

Place sentence strips, from a story read during RATT,  in incorrect order in pocket chart and have students order the events.

Possible Assessment Questions: