Retelling is part of reading and writing skills that includes determining the major parts of a story in order, characters, problem, setting & solution. Retelling a story with the aid of oral prompts develops sequencing, thinking, vocabulary, and visualisation skills in a student.
In this learning concept, students will learn:
All the learning concepts covered for Class 5 English have illustrations, mind maps, and examples. Students can check their understanding by solving the two printable PDF story writing with hints worksheets. The solutions to these exercises are also available in PDF format.
Story retelling is presenting the story as read or heard from a source without missing any necessary detail or adding any additional unnecessary information.
It is a short method to recall, arrange, and outline a story.
The uses of Story Retelling are to:
The following parameters must be kept in mind while retelling a story. They are:
Let us have a look at the prompts for story retelling. They are:
Every writing piece must have both a main idea and supporting idea. In this chapter students of class 5 will learn to identify the main idea and supporting details of a story with examples.
In this learning concept, students will learn:
All the learning concepts covered for Class 5 English have illustrations, mind maps, and examples. Students can check their understanding by solving the two printable PDF worksheets. The solutions to these exercises are also available in PDF format.
To develop the main idea of a story a lot of thought is required before it can become a full-fledged story. So how do you get to the point where you have a main idea to write an entire story?
Examples:
Read the story and write a paragraph using the chart given below:
The Selfish Giant
There once lived a giant who had a large lovely garden around his house, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit.
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.
The Giant had left his house to meet a friend, an ogre. He stayed with his friend for seven years. He decided to return home back to his beautiful garden. When he arrived, he saw the children playing in the garden.
“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all around it, and put up a notice-board.
He was a very selfish Giant. The poor children had now nowhere to play.
Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom.
One morning the Giant heard the bird singing in his garden. The north wind stopped roaring, and the hail had stopped falling too. The Giant went out to his garden and saw children had crept into the garden, and they were playing, and some were climbing the trees. The trees were happy, for they bowed low to help the children climb. Looking at this, the Giant’s heart melted. He realized that he had been selfish.
From that day onwards, he never stopped children from playing in his garden.
Main Idea:
The Giant didn’t want children to play in his garden.
Key details 1:
The Giant said the statement, “My own garden is my own garden, any
one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but
myself.
Key details 2:
The Giant also hung the poster “Trespassers will be prosecuted” to warn anyone who came to his garden.
The students will learn to develop story writing with given outline. They will also study some outline story writing examples of story writing with images for better understanding
In this learning concept, the students will learn:
Every concept is taught to class 5 English students with the help of examples, illustrations, and concept maps. Once you go through a concept, assess your learning by solving the printable outline story writing worksheet given at the end of the page.
Download the worksheets and check your answers with the worksheet solutions for the concept Story Writing with Outline provided in PDF format.
A story outline is a pre-writing tool used to organize your story. It's a way to visually see the arc of your story and the major points you need to hit, so you can create a comprehensive plan for writing your book.
Look at the outline of a story given below.
First day in school – Ravi – fourth grade in school – got ready – nervous – reached 10 mins before – class was full – stand up and pray – teacher – first chapter of English – ten minutes break – played badminton – continued class – lunch break in 12.30 – Dosa – class till 2.30 – school got over - good day.
The First Day
Today is the first day of Ravi’s fourth grade in his school. He woke up early in the morning and got ready. He was slightly nervous as it was the first day of the new grade. He reached school 10 minutes before time. He could see the class was already full of students. After sometime the teacher came and asked everyone to stand up and pray. Then, she started to teach the first chapter of the English textbook. After the class got over, the students got a ten-minute break. He went to the playground and played badminton with his classmates for some time. After that, they continued to have classes until they had their lunch break at 12:30 pm. Ravi ate dosa prepared by his mother for lunch. After the lunch break, the students had two more classes till 2:30. Finally, at 2:30 pm everybody left for home. It was a good day indeed.
Give the title to the story. Make sure the title is relatable to the story.
Examples:
The First Day
First, take a look at the characters given in the outline. They can be people, animals, or objects.
Examples:
Ravi, students, classmates, badminton.
Next, see the information given in the outline and make them into complete sentences to form the story.
Examples:
Outline: First day in school – Ravi – fourth grade in school
Complete sentence Today, it is the first day of Ravi in fourth grade in his school.
Do not add any such detail which is not relevant to the outline given. In such case, the additional information will take the story in a different path.
Examples:
Ram – studying in grade 2 – went to the field – cricket with friends - ball went high in the sky – broke a window pane – uncle got angry – scolded – gave them the ball.
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