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EARLY YEARS
14
Demonstration video
product/developing-
news-telling-and-
narrative-skills-for-4-
year-olds/
When? “Today.”
Made? “I made a
mobile.”
Used? “We used a coat
hanger, string and
card.”
I... “I coloured the
pictures.”
Then... “Then I cut them
out.”
And then... “And then
I tied them
onto the coat
hanger.”
When? “Today.”
Who? “All the Kindy kids.”
What? “Played.”
Where? “Outside in the
sand pit.”
Picture Book
Retelling - Step 1
• Colour storytelling cards and posters
which assist early retelling efforts.
• Retell summaries for over 40 four
year old picture books.
• A story retell assessment screen to
monitor progress with explicit
instructions, colour cards and a checklist to record:
- age appropriate observations
- observations made which suggest small focused
group narrative skill development is recommended
$75 Website Order Code: Pbr4
ISBN: 978-1-921560-97-2
Developing News Telling
and Narrative Skills
• The instruction manual includes
examples of Adequate and
Inadequate language.
E.g. Inadequate Activity Retells
language: “I made a frog,
put on glue, put on eyes, put on
green, put on mouth.”
(Does not use connector words
[then, and then] and overuses
the word ‘put’ rather than painted,
drew, glued.)
• Includes guidelines for instructing
whole group, small group and
individual activities.
$75 Website Order Code: Mn4
ISBN: 978-1-921560-38-5
“Children interact verbally and non-verbally
with others for a range of purposes”
“Children express ideas and make meaning
using a range of media”
EYLF (Outcome 5: Children are
effective communicators)
Greeting “Good morning
everyone.”
What? “I’m holding an
elephant.”
Colour? “It’s grey.”
Parts? “It has tusks and a
trunk.”
Thank You “Thanks for
listening.”
Object Based
News
Activity Retells
Event Based
News
The cards
(and/or posters)
can be used to
model and support
whole class,
small group or
individual
news telling.
Movement & Motor
Pre-Literacy
Oral Language
Prices exclude GST Demonstration video
picture-book-retelling-step-1/
Story retell summaries outline the language model
teachers should provide to students aged 3½ to 4½
years. Students of this age should be able to produce
a retell containing the introduction, three events
and an ending while incorporating the joining words:
then/and then/but/so
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