Lesson Plan
Retelling with Paragraph Frames
Help your EL students retell a story using a paragraph frame and transition words. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity to reinforce comprehension of texts or used as a support lesson for Read and Retell a Classic.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will retell a fictional text using a paragraph frame.
Language
Students will be able to retell a fictional text with transition words using a paragraph frame.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Access prior knowledge of comprehension by showing a photograph of someone understanding what they are reading.
- Write the word "comprehension" under the photograph.
- Ask students what the picture shows and how the picture relates to the word comprehension.
- Allow a few students to offer responses using details from the picture.
- Explain to students that comprehension means understanding what you are looking at, reading, or discussing.
- Explain to the students that today they will be learning unfamiliar words, transition words, and using a paragraph frame to help them retell a story.
- Have the students choral chant the learning objective for the day: "I can retell a fictional text with transition words using a paragraph frame."