Preschool · Reading · week 32

Retell a story with three pictures

Retell a short story in order using a beginning, a middle, and an end picture.

After a story, you can tell it again in your own words! Use three pictures: one for the beginning, one for the middle, and one for the end.

Retelling a story in order helps you understand and remember it even better.

📋 For the teacher

Teach it (10–15 min):

Pick a very short, very familiar story so the retell focuses on order, not on remembering new content.
Draw or find three simple pictures together, one per part, before asking for the retell.
Model the retell yourself once, out loud, before asking the child to try it.
It is fine if the retell is short and simple; correct order matters more than rich detail at this age.

Talk about it:

Mastery looks like: They retell a short, familiar story with the beginning, middle, and end in the correct order.

Common stumbles: Telling events out of order; skipping the middle and jumping straight from beginning to end.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

Records attendance + 15 min of Reading for this learner.