Five Finger Retell
Develop students' storytelling and reading comprehension skills with the Five-Finger Retell strategy.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to recognise characteristics of different types of texts, e.g. traditional beginnings and endings of fairy tales and rhyme in poetry.
- We are learning to identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text.
Curriculum alignment
ENe-8B
old
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
ENe-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.