BANYAN December 18, 2009
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year!
Banyan Readers are growing their skills with daily practice.
READING Retelling
We continued to learn how to retell. Banyan readers learned to use
We used our retelling bookmarks with helpful icons that remind us of all
time words when they retell that help
the elements of a good retelling. We
us understand when things happen in the story:
practiced with our reading partners. When we needed to clarify, revise
•First •Next
or check our retelling, we learned to refer back to the text for evidence.
•Then
I still encourage the students to use
•After that •Finally
their own words but to use the text and illustrations to help when they are
They also learned how to retell
confused about a section.
with expression so that the listener is more engaged and to show that we
Banyan Readers: focused and immersed!
really understood the story.
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