Story Telling

Curriculum details

Strand

Oral Language (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Story Telling (1.4)

Content standard

B4.1.4.1 - Respond to stories

Indicator

B4.1.4.1.1 - Retell stories sequentially, including key details

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 2 (Week 2 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Source document note

The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

• exemplars - p.4

Curriculum reference

English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 4

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Tell/read a suitable story to the class e.g. "The Hawk and the Hen".
- Learners retell the story in detail.
- Have learners identify the parts of the story as beginning part, middle part and ending part.
- Through questioning, have learners discuss the various parts of the story i.e. beginning, middle and ending, as in the table below:
Title................. What was the Where in the story What are the key event? did this event details of this event? happen? Beginning Middle Ending
- Put learners into groups to discuss the central message of the story.
- Have learners retell the story sequentially.

 The table the exemplar says to use ("as in the table below: Title.....") is drawn, and its cells arrive in the text layer as one run of words. Its columns are "What was the event?", "Where in the story did this event happen?" and "What are the key details of this event?", with rows Beginning, Middle and Ending; the figure shows it.