New Reading Comprehension Strategy

Today we started talking about a new reading comprehension strategy. We will be working on retelling a story. When we retell a story, we are focusing on the important details. We are also using the Go Map to help keep us on track. Today we read a story called Snow Day. We used a new technology tool in our classroom called a document camera. The document camera allowed us to do a shared read aloud where we each got a turn to read pages of the story.
The story is projected on our SmartBoard so we can all take part in the read aloud.

After reading the story, we talked about the beginning, middle and end and focused on only the important details. We will continue to talk about retelling stories for the next little while. You can help your child retell a story and focus on the important details by using keep on track words like First, Next, Then, Last and Finally. 

We will continue to use the document camera for more shared reading opportunities and to showcase student work.