Book Bridges: A Family Literacy Program

5. Explains that we can use these same questions to help us remember and tell the story to someone else:
If we remember these things, we can tell the story to someone else. Telling someone else is a good way to practice remembering what we read.

6. Discloses that in today's session we will be learning how to use the question categories to help us retell a story and

7. Emphasizes that in retelling a story we use our own words, not the exact words that the author uses and that we tell only the most important parts.

II. Modeled Retelling Using Directed Inquiry Questions

The instructor:

1. Announces:

Let me show you what I mean. I'll use Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge because we all know that story.

2. Models her thinking, while referring to the Directed Inquiry question chart (Box 5) and during the modeled retelling of Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (Box 6), emphasizes the use of the questions as a framework for recall.

3. Points out that she didn't retell the story exactly as the author wrote it, but that she remembered most of the important things by using the Directed Inquiry questions who, where, when, what, why, and how to a) help her keep track of the story while she was reading and b) jog her memory when she was retelling the story and

4. Stresses that one of the important purposes for reading is to "find out" - to remember the message/information.

We learn about the world by reading. In the middle of retelling a story, when I can't remember what comes next, I think of the Directed Inquiry questions. They help me remember the specifics and get me back on track.

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