Characters, settings, and events
Identify characters, settings, and major events in stories; become familiar with key stories, fairy tales, and traditional tales and retell them with key details in sequence
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Stories have characters (who), a setting (where/when), and events (what happened). After we read, we retell those parts in order.
Spend about 15 minutes reading a short familiar story and mapping who, where, and what happened.
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- Name the main characters in a story
- Describe where and when a story takes place
- Retell a familiar story including beginning, middle, and end events
“After reading a fairy tale or story together, can your child retell it to you in order — saying who was in it, where it happened, and what the main events were?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 5–8
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