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English · Pre-K

Understand and Retell Stories

Children listen to an original story, Lola and the Little Seed, and learn to name its characters, setting and main events, retell it with a beginning, middle and end, and explain how a character feels and why. A new story in the quiz checks that the skills transfer.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 45 minutes
  • Story check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Name the characters, the setting and the important events of a story read aloud.
  • Retell a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
  • Say how a character feels at different points in a story and use a story clue to explain why.

Lessons

  1. Listen to Lola's story 4 steps2 practiceabout 15 min
  2. Beginning, middle, end 4 steps1 practiceabout 15 min
  3. How does Lola feel? 4 steps2 practiceabout 15 min
  4. Story check 4 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Memory LanternsFlip glowing lanterns to find pairs that belong together.
  • Sound GardenListen closely and grow the garden: find the word that starts, rhymes or claps just right.
  • Story SequencerShuffle, sort and retell: put the picture cards in story order.

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