Retelling and Summarizing with Picture Books (First Grade Book Bundle) CCSS

This set of lesson plans, resources, and activities is for use with A Color of His Own, Biscuit's First Trip, Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook, and Rosie's Walk.

These resources can be used for whole group, small group, and independent instruction – which makes these them a smart choice for literacy centers or Reader’s Workshop. Each lesson plan follows the format of a mini lesson and provides an opportunity for students to turn and talk about how they retell and summarize while reading. Students will also have the opportunity to practice the strategy with a page by page guided “worksheet” and write about their reading with a common core aligned Reader’s notebook prompt.

Here's What You'll Get and Why:

My goal was to make it easy to teach readers how to think about books through the lens of comprehension strategies. This book bundle will help you teach readers how to retell and summarize while reading popular picture books for first grade readers. You’ll get the following set of resources for each book:
- Retelling and Summarizing Comprehension Strategy Lesson Plan
- Page by Page Practice Worksheets
- Answer Keys
- Text Specific Reader’s Notebook Prompts
- Retelling and Summarizing Graphic Organizer
- Complete Common Core Alignment

You’ll also get a set of Retelling and Summarizing Task Cards that can be used with early finishers or as an extension activity for all students.

Last, I’ve included an Retelling and Summarizing Poster for your classroom library. Hang the poster in your classroom to remind your students what good readers do. You could also make copies of the covers of each of the books used in this book bundle and hang them with the poster to remind students of the work they did while reading each of the books.

I hope that you will enjoy using my resources along with your copy or copies of “A Color of His Own, Biscuit's First Trip, Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook, and Rosie's Walk.”

If you have any questions about the resources included in this set please email me at Amy@BookPagez.com. It will be my pleasure to reply and help you in any way I can.