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Recounting Stories and Determining Central Message

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.

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Video : ELA Grade 2 RL.2.2 Recounting Stories and Central Message

Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.

Description: This video teaches students how to recount stories and determine central message.

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?

A) to count how many pages are in the story

B) to retell the events and details of a story in your own words

C) to rewrite the story

D) to tell the central message of the story

Question #2

What are the characters in a story?

A) what is happening to the characters that they need to solve

B) the people, animals, or objects the story is about

C) where the story takes place

D) how the characters solved or fixed their problem

Question #3

What is the setting in a story?

A) what is happening to the characters that they need to solve

B) the people, animals, or objects the story is about

C) where the story takes place

D) how the characters solved or fixed their problem

Question #4

What is the story's problem?

A) what is happening to the characters that they need to solve

B) the people, animals, or objects the story is about

C) where the story takes place

D) how the characters solved or fixed their problem

Question #5

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

A) True

B) False

Question #6

What is the solution of a story?

A) what is happening to the characters that they need to solve

B) the people, animals, or objects the story is about

C) how the characters fixed or solved the problem

D) the central message of the story

Question #7

What is the central message of a story?

A) what happens in the middle of the story

B) the retelling of the events and details of a story in your own words

C) the description of how the characters act in the story

D) the life lesson that the readers learn from the story

Question #8

An example of a moral or central message is to never trust strangers.

A) True

B) False

Question #9

The terms central message, moral, and lesson are all synonyms and have similar meanings.

A) True

B) False

Question #10

What is a fable?

A) stories about animals who have human characteristics and learn a lesson

B) a story that has to be acted out like a play

C) a story that has a mystery that must be solved

D) an informational text that tells facts

Description: How well do you understand how to recount stories and determine central message? Take this quiz to find out!

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.

Recounting Stories Instructional Video

Standards: ELA.2.R.1.1, ELA.2.R.1.2

Video : ELA Grade 2 RL.2.2 Recounting Stories and Central Message

Quiz : Recounting Stories and Central Message

Resources : Fables & Folktales

Resources : Recounting Stories