As we have been watching our caterpillars tell their story - we have also been talking about the beginning, middle and end of the stories we have been reading in class!
Learning Intention:
- Children demonstrate understanding of messages communicated in texts
I Can:
- Sequence events from a text
- Retell the beginning, middle, end of a text
When we arrived back at school this week our caterpillars had transitioned into the next stage of their life cycle - the chrysalis. As we have been documenting the changes they're going through, we have also been talking about the 'story' of their life - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly - and referring to these stages as the beginning, middle and end of their life cycle. We continued to explore the idea of beginning, middle and endings of stories and focused on creating simple story maps together as a large group to help us retell these important parts of a story. We did such a great job with our oral retellings so we decided to take on a challenge with a more complex story called 'The Secret Shortcut'. After listening to the story we made our own story maps and then used them to help us retell different events from the beginning, middle and end.
