Love your idea about teaching a retelling unit before we give the DRA2 in Sept.! I am going to suggest this to my team. Unfortunately, our district gives us a window of time in which to administer the DRA2, and it will be in Sept.---no changing that. But we can start from the first week working on retelling, and I am quite partial to The Power of Retelling for that. I totally agree that we need to help the kids understand what it is we are asking them to do! (Please don't give me an assessment on my knowledge of physics!) And I totally agree with you that the lower level guided reading books don't tend to be that great for teaching retelling. I am thinking I will be using big books & working on the retelling during shared reading-----but am not sure how I will transfer from the high teacher support of shared reading to increased student responsibility for the task. . . . hmmmmm . . . .Need to do some brainstorming with colleagues on this one . . .
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