Retelling the Knuffle Bunny

First Grade
Reading and Writing

South Carolina Common Core Standards

W.1.3. Write narratives in which they
recount two or more appropriately
sequenced events, include some details
regarding what happened, use temporal
words to signal event order, and provide
some sense of closure
RL.1.2. Retell stories, including key details,
and demonstrate understanding of their
central message or lesson.
RL.1.3. Describe characters, settings, and
major events in a story, using key details
RL.1.7. Use illustrations and details in a
story to describe its characters, setting, or
events

http://ed.sc.gov/scdoe/assets/File/instruction/standa
rds/ELA/SCCCRStandards%20OnePagerGrade%201%20ELA.pdf

Materials
for by
the
Knuffle
Bunny book
Mo Lesson
Williams

and Learning Objective

5-Finger Retell cards for students

Read aloud of book video
Story retell sheets for students
Magazines
Photos of scenery and places
Paper
Markers and crayons
Scissors
Glue

Learning objective: The students will be able to

know the five ways to retell a story and retell the
story through writing and drawing.

In this lesson the class will read the

book, Knuffle Bunny, together and
then the students will retell details of
the story through writings and
illustrations.

When retelling the story the students

can reference the 5-Finger Retell..

A video of the story being told will be available to watch, in

order to remember details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E3lPWEyn8Q

Retelling Through Writing

First to retell the story the students will

write out a short summary that
includes the setting, characters,
problem, events, and solution.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Common-Core-Readin
g-Teaching-1st-graders-how-to-think-about-reading-literature-1
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Retelling Through Illustrations

Again what are the five parts of retelling?

1. Setting
2. Characters
3. Problem
4. Events
5. Solution

The students will then write the parts

of a story from memory and draw
pictures for each of the parts in a
table, similar to the one below.

Lastly, to make the learning experience

more creative the students can pick a
picture from a magazine or from some
printed, add a drawing of themselves,
and write a story to go with it or

They can draw a picture of a special

object they have like the knuffle
bunny and write about it.