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render verbally, "recite a poem"

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make into fiction

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When the retells analysis was concluded, the agreement between the verbalized events and functions recorded by a researcher and those recorded by an undergraduate student were calculated.
My challenge in Year 3 was to use retells to teach different text forms as well as assess student knowledge of them.
The fact that the stories could be replayed would help children internalise the language and structure of the stories which, as Pie Corbett tells us, is necessary before children can write or retell their own.
Students practiced oral retells, with a minimum criterion of three main ideas.
Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) retells these familiar childhood stories as sexual-awakening metaphors.
Tai's details provide haunting images as she takes her grandfather's story and retells it through the eyes of his daughter.
With "On That Christmas Night", children's author Mary Joslin retells the traditional Christmas story with due reverence, mystery, and awe in recreating for young readers that holy night when Baby Jesus was born.
Each presenter retells the biblical narrative and highlights insights from commentators through the ages, thereby remedying the male abuse of the text.
Seasoned and perceptive advisers like Harris, a professor of African and African American art at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the new adjunct curator of African American art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, along with the unknown author of the story he retells, would probably rephrase that to "You like what you know."
Old Songs is a brief collection of twenty-seven free-verse poems plus one prose story that retells an ancient East Indian epic, The Ramayana, through the voice of its heroine.
Monica McAlpine retells the story of the Burghers of Calais and their surrender to Edward III in 1346 as it appears in
After reading the book, the adult retells the story using props, and then a child retells the story in his/her own words using the same props.
The story of Krishna dates back to the 8th century BCE, and are a foundation of Hindu belief: this picture book retells the tale and recounts a host of Krishna encounters, imparting a dose of spirituality and moral insight perfect for discussion with kids in the 6 and older age range.
Book III retells nine fairytales in short story form, each one a magical and riveting scene unto itself.
A coming-of-age story, Vega retells life in 1960s Puerto Rican New York with a writing style as rhythmic as the musk she worshipped growing up.