Mentor text for retelling first grade

Explore fiction mentor texts perfect for teaching Common Core literature standards. Discover recommended read-alouds to enhance comprehension.

Make sure you add these books for teaching context clues to your lesson plans this week! These are perfect for teaching unknown words.

Check out this comprehensive list of the best books for teaching story elements! These picture books are a great way to introduce story elements in kindergarten and first grade. Each of these stories makes a good mentor text to follow up with activities, worksheets, graphic organizers, or small group lessons. Get ideas to teach reading skills during language arts by using reading workshop and guided reading to encourage kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade literacy. Read more here!

Hi everyone! Today I'm here with an update on our shared reading activities! We have spent a lot of time the last few months on fiction story elements.We spend about 2 weeks (4 days a week) on each topic. This is what our schedule has looked like...and this will take us right up to spring break! We started by reading fiction books (whole group) and just practicing our retells (characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end). Next, we focused on the problem & solution in fiction books. We…

How to teach retell in primary grades and make it fun! Get ideas and a FREE retell activity here for first-grade and second-grade.

I LOVE using mentor texts to teach reading skills in upper elementary! In this blog post, I talk about five of my favorite mentor texts that I like to use when teaching my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders about asking questions. You can find descriptions of the texts and links to the books found on Amazon. I have even included a FREE Mentor Text Cheat Sheet to help you organize your mentor texts & the reading skills you teach with them! {third, fourth, fifth grade, reading comprehension}

Books for teaching sequencing should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Here are 16 great books for kindergarten or first grade.

Since it is summertime and so many of us are already in planning mode for next year, I wanted to utilize my Mentor Text series post this month to share books to help you teach your students about THEME! If you like any of the books you see in this blog post, you can click […]

Retelling & Recounting Stories. The focus of this teaching resource blog only found in the Literature domain. You will find resources about prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. #retellastory #recounting #secondgradereading

Grumpy Monkey is a funny book that makes a perfect read aloud for first grade, second grade and even third grade classrooms. It's a great story to teach lessons on social emotional learning topics such as moods, sadness or the way we perceive others. School counselors will love this mentor text for teaching students about feelings and explore ideas on how to regulate emotions. #readaloudstrategies #readaloudbooks #readaloudlessons