Today I read a story to them from our weekly Anthology Book.  It’s an old favorite of the fables, stories that have a lesson.  The Turtle and the Rabbit.    Reading the story and discovering the lesson was the lesson.  However, we went on and made the characters and the retold the story, using our puppets!  Such involvement and I could really assess the retelling with each one.

Have them retell the story to you.  Ask them, “What’s the lesson we should learn from this fable?”