Recounting Stories and Determining Central Message
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Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 2
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: recount stories, determine central message, fable
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will learn how to recount a story using the 5-finger retell strategy that includes setting, characters, and plot. Students will also learn what the central message of a story is. Finally, students will get to practice recounting a fable and determining its central message.

  • Other 2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
  • ELA.2.R.1.1 Identify plot structure and describe main story elements in a literary text.
  • ELA.2.R.1.2 Identify and explain a theme of a literary text.
Video : ELA Grade 2 RL.2.2 Recounting Stories and Central Message
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Quiz : Recounting Stories and Central Message
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1

What does it mean to recount a story?

Question #2

What are the characters in a story?

Question #3

What is the setting in a story?

Question #4

What is the story's problem?

Question #5
When recouting the events in a story, you need to tell them in order from beginning, middle, and end.
Question #6

What is the solution of a story?

Question #7

What is the central message of a story?

Question #8
An example of a moral or central message is to never trust strangers.
Question #9
The terms central message, moral, and lesson are all synonyms and have similar meanings.
Question #10

What is a fable?

Resources : Fables & Folktales
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
What are folktales?
Scroll through this lesson that gives more information about folktales and fables.
Stories to Grow By
This website has lots of fables and folktales from around the world that you can read.
Popular Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folktales for Kids
Another website with lots of fables, fairy tales, and folktales to read.
Fables, Folktales, Myths, & Legends Explained
Scroll through this lesson to read more about fables, folktales, myths, and legends.
Resources : Recounting Stories
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.