This week your child brought home a new reading tool in their book bag – their own retelling rope! Their rope consists of 8 colored beads tied onto a shoelace. This tool is used to help students with reading comprehension of a story. Children know that comprehension happens when they understand what they read. I can test their comprehension using their retelling rope. If they can successfully retell a story to me, using their retelling rope, and not go back to their book for help, then I can say they comprehended their story.

Retelling ropes are to stay in your child’s book bag and are to go home every night and come back to school every morning. Please listen to your child retell their fictional story using their retelling rope. They are very excited to use them and have been doing a great job with them so far 🙂

For your reference, here are the elements of a retelling that the children must use. They start at the top (light blue bead), say the title, and move down the rope as they complete each task.

Retelling Rope

(Light blue) = Title

(Black) = Characters  

(Green) = Setting

(White) = First…

(Blue) = Next…

(Pink) = Then…

(Orange) = Last…

(Yellow) = Favorite Part and Connection

 Happy reading and retelling!

**Retelling ropes are not used with non-fiction texts.