PBS
Pbs: Super Why!
Empower students on a reading adventure with this collection of interactive literacy games. Superpower your literacy lessons with these videos, interactives, and activities.
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: How to Retell a Story Instructional Video (1.Rl, Quest 3)
Learn how to retell a story by using the five finger approach. This video uses the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" as an example. [3:33]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ginnifer Goodwin: Adventure
Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [2:02]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why!: Little Miss Muffet
In this Super WHY! episode, students learn how to treat a friend in the story of "Little Miss Muffet". Students also follow the alphabet, practice spelling, and use the power of reading to change a story. Students follow along as Red...
British Council
Learn English Kids: The Lucky Envelope
After reading along and listening to this story, you can print off activities that check your comprehension. Practice story sequencing and other comprehension skills and write a message.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Make Mental Pictures as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn how to make sense of nonfiction texts by making mental pictures. Login gives access to an additional video. [3:46]
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: Beginning, Middle, End k.rl.3
This eSpark video outlines a new learning quest that will help students master Common Core State Standard K.RL.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. This video is only the beginning of...
Curated Video
Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling With Picture Supports
Students participate in the retelling of the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar using pictures to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression. This video models this lesson. [2:06]
Other
Western Reserve Public Media: Teaching With Tech: Tech Plus Crayons
The lesson consists of students working in groups of 3-4 to research different topics about Emperor Penguins. They will scan a QR code, which will take them to teacher-vetted websites for answers to topic questions. These topics are:...
Curated Video
How to Teach a Retelling Reading Strategy for Primary Students: Reading Lessons
Learn how to teach retelling by using the five finger method for primary students. [1:27]
Curated Video
Youtube: Storytelling Tips With Karrie Korroch
A children's librarian explains 5 things you can do to prepare for telling a story. [5:10]
Curated Video
Youtube: Vodcast Retelling a Story
This video explains 4 things that a good reader considers when retelling a story. [4:29]
PBS
Pbs: Rounding Up the Rhymes
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher reads text to identify pairs of rhyming words within the story.
PBS
Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
PBS
Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
PBS
Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.
PBS
Pbs: Story Retelling With Aac: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates students use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to retell a story.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Helping and Learning From Mistakes
TEAMology characters Harper and Paco lend a little assistance at the local library! Learning to read and learning from mistakes is packaged with fun. [4:57]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Preschool Library: The Perfect Pet
The Perfect Pet is an audio story about a young child choosing a pet.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literacy Strategies
This is a collection of 23 short videos of literacy strategies for PreK-3
Curated Video
Youtube: How to Retell a Story for Kids
This short video explains how to retell a fiction story by telling the characters, setting, and major events from beginning to end! [1:48]