Recording Ourselves Retelling a Story

The student's have been practicing retelling a story in their own words.  Retelling allows children to demonstrate how much they fully understand or comprehend a story.  In this lesson, the children were read the story Arrow to the Sun (A Native American Tale).

After the children were read the story aloud, they cut out pictures for their "storytelling bags."  Their storytelling bags were modeled after the Native American story telling bags of the past in which objects were placed in the bag to remind the storyteller of what to include in their story.

  

1.  Below are photos of the children coloring and cutting out pictures for their story telling bags:

2.  Upon completing their pictures, the students then put their pictures in order and took a photo of each picture in a book that they created in their Bookcreator app on the iPad.  Each page had a picture of an event or character in the story. 

3.  The students then recorded themselves retelling the story by saying something about each photo on each page. 

4.  Afterward, they listened to their retellings with a teacher.