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When? “Today.”
Made? “All the Pre-Primary
class baked cookies.”
Used? “We used cookie mix-
ture, a rolling pin and
cookie cutters.”
First “First we rolled out the
cookie mixture.”
Second “Second we
pressed in the
cookie cutters.”
Last “Last we baked them
in the oven.”
When? “Today.”
When? “At school.”
Who? “All the Pre-Primary
class.”
What? “Painted faces on
their library bags.”
Where? “So that they
looked colourful.”
Story retell summaries outline the language model
teachers should provide to students aged 4½ to 5½
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:
next/because/but/so/ first/second/third/last
Picture Book
Retelling - Step 2
• Colour storytelling cards and posters
which assist early retelling efforts.
• Retell summaries for over 40
five 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: PBr5
ISBN: 978-1-921560-98-9
Developing News Telling
and Narrative Skills
•The instruction manual includes
examples of Adequate and
Inadequate language.
E.g. Inadequate Object Based
News language: “I got lion, it got
leg and tail, it brown. Thank you.”
(There is no greeting and there
are grammatical errors.)
• Includes guidelines for
instructing whole group, small
group and individual activities.
$75 Website Order Code: Mn5
ISBN: 978-1-921560-39-2
“Deliver short oral presentations to peers”
ACARA - Aust. Curriculum (Foundation Year:
Interacting with others/Oral presentations -
The formal oral presentations that students
engage in including presenting recounts
and information, and presenting and
arguing a point of view.)
Greeting “Good morning
class.”
What? “An elephant.”
Type? “It is a type of a zoo/
African animal.”
Parts? “They have tough
wrinkly skin, large ears
and tusks.”
Found? “You can find them
living in the zoo or
out in the wild.”
Object Based
News
Activity Retells
Event Based
News
Demonstration video
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telling-and-narrative-skills-
for-5-year-olds/
The cards
(and/or posters)
can be used to
model and support
whole class,
small group or
individual
news telling.
“Use comprehension strategies to
understand and discuss texts listened to,
viewed or read independently”
ACARA - Aust. Curriculum (Foundation
Year: Interpreting, analysing,
evaluating/Comprehension)
Literacy
Movement & Motor
Oral Language
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