all right guys today we're going to talk
about how to retell a story okay we've
talked about in class some major parts
we've talked about what characters are
and we've talked about setting is and
then we've talked about beginning middle
end but if you're going to tell me what
happened in the story you have to tell
me all of those things
okay so if i was going to read a story i
would need to be able to do something in
the end called a
five finger retail and i've got a little
picture here okay this is my five finger
retail
when you are going to read a story to
someone when you're done to be able to
tell the whole thing of what happened
you are going to tell them
who the characters were in the story
what the setting is remember the setting
is
where and when okay the setting is two
parts
and then we're gonna tell them what
happened in the beginning the middle
and the end and i'm to show you how to
do this but first i'm going to read you
a story okay
my story today is called tooth trouble i
really like this one i know a lot of you
are losing teeth right now
so let's read this story called tooth
trouble okay
and remember while you're listening i
want you to think about who the
characters are
where they are when this is what's
happening in the beginning and middle
end okay
tooth trouble
wilbur and his mother were crunching
their way through a
whole huge pile of shellfish ow
said wilbur my tusk hurts you'll have to
go to the dentist said mrs walrus
well i don't want to go to the dentist
sid wilbur
or wilbur my test only hurts when i
crunch
said wilbur and if i take off the shells
then i can just slurp them okay mom
have some seaweed said mrs walrus it's
nice and soft
oh said wilbur i don't want to eat
seaweed it's green and it's slimy
you'll have to go to the dentist said
mrs walrus i don't want to go to the
dentist said wilbur
all right so think about who these
characters are think about where they're
at what's happening here at the
beginning of the story so far okay let's
put that in our head what's going on so
far the very beginning this is how the
story starts
okay so then wilbur's friends were
wrestling wilbur
loved tusk rescue wrestling he locked
tusks with his friends walter
whoop
you'll have to go to the dentist walter
said i don't want to go to the dentist
said wilbur
that's what he keeps repeating he just
doesn't have to go to the desk right
my test only hurts when i wrestle said
wilbur let's play on the ice slide with
wanda
wanda wilbur and walter swoop down the
slide splash
they somersaulted into the sea that was
great
let's do it again walter said
nice job all right let's keep going
walter poked his tusks into the ice and
pulled himself up onto the ice floe
wanda poked her tusk into the ice and
pulled herself up under the ice flow
also
wilbur poked his tests into the ice and
yelled wilbur my tusk hurts
you'll have to go to the dentist wanda
said i don't want to go to the dentist
said wilbur
he's probably a little afraid isn't he
but the dentist
i'll swim to grandpa's wilbur said
grandpa makes everything better
it's easy to get out there he's got a
landing slope
it was a long way to grandpa's house
wilbur's tusk
hurt in the cold water he pulled himself
up grandpa's landing slope and laid
there moaning
remember moaning means oh it's that
sound
tis tisk said grandpa he put his flipper
around while
walter or sorry wilbur's shoulder and
helped him up under the ice flow
what's the matter my tusk hurts wilbur
cried
his whiskers quivered you'll have to go
to the dentist grandpa
said i don't want to go to the dentist
said wilbur
now look at grandpa look at his tasks
okay
let's see what happens oh
grandpa smiled neither did
i he said oh no look at grandpa's test
now you can notice what's going on here
so now pay attention to what's going on
in the middle of our story okay
let's keep going mrs walrus waddled up
the landing slope toward them
walter and wanda said i'd find you here
she said
is your tusk still hurting yeah i said
wilbur i have to go to the dentist
finally said mrs walrus mama walrus is
so relieved he's ready to go
i'm sorry guys
dr tusker the dentist was very gentle
i see what the problem is she said
you've got a piece of shell stuck on the
top of your tusk
there i've taken it out that feels much
better said wilbur
dentists are always very gentle
[Applause]
if you brush your tusks twice a day with
a special fish flavor toothpaste your
tusks will be strong and shiny said dr
tusker
she gave wilbur a sticker and it said i
brush my tusks
look how happy and proud he seems very
nice okay
whoa said grandpa i wish i had tests
like yours
dr tusker will make you a false test
said wilbur
you'll have to go to the dentist but i
don't want to go to the dentist
said grandpa tisk tisk said wilbur he
put his flipper around grandpa's
shoulder
if i can go to the dentist so can you
now what's he doing he's encouraging his
own grandpa
and there's the ending place this kind
of helps us with part of our setting
doesn't it
okay so let's look at our five-finger
retail here's what i want to do let's
talk about the parts of this
let's see what are the characters let's
see if we can list some characters i'm
gonna take a second and stop you see if
you can say the characters out loud all
right so
let's see if you can say what those
characters were i know we had wilbur
we had his mom with his grandpa and then
his friends that were in the story also
right
and i can always look back and i can see
who those people were when he was
playing with his friends
there oh and and the dentist you're
right his friends were
wanda and walter right okay
so now let's talk about the setting
where are they at
they are in the arctic they are
at the dentist office too you're right
they were outside and they were also
at the dentist office when do you think
this is
okay i it could be during the daytime it
could be
we don't know if it's winter or not
because it's always cold there right
but we know it's not in the middle of
the night okay we know it was also
during playtime very good all right
let's see if we can think about what
happened in the very beginning of the
story in the very beginning of the story
what some of you do is you just open the
book to the first page and you say oh
this is the beginning when i was seeing
some of you
you would just copy it down wilbur and
his mother were crunching their way
through a large palace shellfish
well that doesn't really tell me
anything i need to think about what was
going on at the beginning that started
the story
so what happened at the very beginning
of the story
to show us what the problem was
okay so the very beginning of the story
we found wilbur
and he had a tooth pain right and he was
very
nervous to go to the dentist but that's
how it all started it all started with
him having a little pain in his tooth
all right so in the middle if i were to
go through it there's a lot of things
that happen in the middle of the story
but in the middle of the story what
keeps happening
his tooth keeps hurting him okay and he
keeps fighting or
people keep telling him he needs to go
to the dentist and who's the one who
tells him that he needs to go to the
dentist that he finally listens to
he finally listens to his grandfather
okay and at the very
end of this story what happened
at the very end of the story he went to
the dentist and what happened to his
tooth
she fixed it it felt all better okay and
there was a little bit at the end of
that where he
talks his grandpa and also going back to
the dentist okay so if i was going to
tell this i would say
um if i was going to tell the story
tooth trouble
i would say this story tooth trouble is
about
walruses okay
that have problems with their teeth
there's a little walrus named wilbur
that lives in the arctic and he is
uh in the beginning his tooth hurts okay
he has a tooth pain
he can't figure out or he doesn't want
to go to the dentist his mom's trying to
talk him into it in the middle
things keep happening to hurt his teeth
he goes in the cold water
he tries to pull himself up he tries to
wrestle it all hurts and his grandfather
convinces him to go to the dentist
because his grandpa had tooth problems
too
and in the end he goes to the dentist
and the dentist fix his teeth and it
doesn't hurt anymore
at all okay so this is how you would do
a five-finger retail you have to
tell me who the characters are where
they're at and when they're
and then what happens beginning middle
and end so this week i want you to work
on doing that after you listen to any
story okay when you listen to a story
you're gonna do a five finger retail
beginning
or sorry character is setting beginning
middle end you can just use your hand
if you want to write it down you can but
you don't have to you can just use your
hand
okay you could do this with any fiction
story any make-believe
story non-fiction it doesn't work so
well we'd have a different way to tell
that
okay all right i hope you practice that
this week with mom and dad
have a great day guys