This activity pack has been inspired by the wonderful Pat Hutchins Rosie's Walk and will assist your students to practice retelling and sequencing stories. It's also a wonderful book to guide students through those prepositional words.
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Inside this easy-to-use pack you will find:
- Large cut-outs (to model with students on the board)
- Stick puppets (for retells)
- Foldable images (to create small world tables for retells)
- Masks (for story retells)
- Prepositional Word Word (with and without matching pictures)
- Puzzle pieces (to sequence the story)
- Story sequencing activities (picture cards and worksheets)
- Craft ideas (chicken and fox printable to decorate)
PLEASE NOTE: the text from the book/whole book as a download is NOT included in this pack due to copyright restrictions. You can purchase the book from any good bookshop or your school library will have a copy. This download is an accompaniment to the book, you will need to have read or currently be reading this book with your students before starting these activities.
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins Story Retell Activities
File Info
PDF 68 pages
ACARA Alignment
Foundation Year English
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes (ACELA1430)
Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality (ACELA1433)
Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786)
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575)
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (ACELT1577)
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783)
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578)
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580)
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650)