Fiction Story Retell Anchor Charts – Five Finger Set
- Grades
- Grades 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Retelling a Story, Anchor Chart
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts, Teacher Tools
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This resource is a set of 8 charts">anchor charts for teaching the five finger story retell for fiction texts. The first chart is complete. The following 7 charts are fill in the blank. These charts would work great on a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Retell a fiction story by identifying its characters, setting, problem, sequence of events, and solution.
Retell a nonfiction text by stating its main idea, three supporting details, and the author's purpose.
Use sentence starters to structure a spoken or written retelling in order.
Teaching tips
Post the anchor-chart page as a visual reference, then hand out the more fully-scaffolded worksheet version before moving students to the version with additional blanks.
Use the fiction and nonfiction versions side by side when teaching students to distinguish how retelling structure differs between genres.
Reuse the templates across multiple stories throughout the year rather than as a single one-time activity, since the sentence starters are generic.
Skills covered
Fiction retelling — students identify characters, setting, problem, and sequence of events, and state the story's solution, using the five-finger structure.
Nonfiction retelling — students state a text's main idea, three supporting details, and the author's purpose.
Sequential organization — the beginning/middle/end prompts require students to order story events.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
What retell structure is used for nonfiction texts, and how does it differ from the fiction version?
The nonfiction version swaps characters, setting, problem and solution for main idea, three supporting details, and the author's purpose, keeping the same five-finger structure used for fiction.
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Story retell
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Fiction vs. nonfiction
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