Strategy

Demonstration
Hannah Ellison, Drew Williams, Briony Furness
Story Reenactment

Story reenactment is when you read a story, and then act it out to the best of
your ability, based off of how you perceived the story.

● Used to tell a story in a more creative and engaging way

● A way to make storytelling come to life
● Creates opportunity for discussion, retelling, and clarification
● Helps strengthen story comprehension
● A way to make reading more fun
Common Core Standards

RL.2.3- Key Ideas and Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and
challenges.

RL.2.5- Craft and Structure: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the
beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

RL.2.7- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in
a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

SL.2.4- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate
facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Content Objectives

● SWBAT reenact their book and include key details from the beginning,
middle and end.
● SWBAT collaboratively work together.
Language Objectives

● SWBAT describe the setting of the story in detail and complete sentences
in order to make coherent discourse.
● SWBAT retell proper sequences and details of the story.
 I CAN!

● I can retell stories by acting them out!

● I can describe the setting of a story!
● I can act out a story from beginning→
middle→ end!
 Activity Time!
Students will have an opportunity to reenact their own stories that they have
just read!

This reenactment should include the following:

● Students read the book as a group

● Students have to be able to retell the story from beginning → middle → end
● Gather/make props if applicable
● Assess the retellings.
Did I Follow Directions?

❏ Did I...Read the book as a group?

❏ Did I…Give each group member a role?
❏ Did I...Include the beginning middle and end of the story?
❏ Did I...Describe the setting of the story?
❏ Did I...Participate equally in my group?
ELL Instruction

In this activity, if you have ELL students in your class there are multiple ways
they can benefit from story reenactment.

● Comprehension
○ understanding the story better and from multiple perspectives
● Social Interaction
● The use of pictures
● Exposure to academic and social vocabulary