If you look on pages 158-161 in Kathy Collin's resource "Growing Readers"she provides mini lessons that help strong readers retell proficiently and the reasons why strong readers should learn about retelling.... which I think is important and often overlooked as we narrow our lens on the strategy. Of course, The Power of Retelling has excellent ideas and useful background info for the teacher, as well. Given those ideas and consideration of Lori Jackson's post of getting kids to rate their own retelling by using a rubric... that is first constructed together, modeled, guided and then finally independently evaluated (by use of tape recorder) could be a great start. Pam
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