SESSION FOUR: DIRECTED INQUIRY LINKED TO STORY RETELLING

1. to reinforce the Directed Inquiry strategy as a technique for enhancing comprehension and recall.
2. to make connections between the Directed Inquiry strategy and story grammar.
3. to provide a framework (story map) to facilitate story retelling and sharing.

1. Briefly recaps the questions used in Directed Inquiry (Box 5), reinforcing that these questions help us understand and remember what we read.
   
   
2. Outlines the activity for the session:
   
   a) to learn the structure of a story and
   
   b) to use that structure as a guide for retelling a story
   
   
3. Explains that the Directed Inquiry questions follow the pattern of a story, by pointing to the previously prepared chart of a story map (Box 8) and indicating that:
   
   

   Stories have a BEGINNING, a MIDDLE and an END. The BEGINNING usually includes a setting which describes where and when the story takes place and introduces the main characters and their problem or goal. In the MIDDLE, the author describes the roadblocks that the characters encounter and what they do to solve the problem or achieve their goal. In the END, the author tells how the problem is resolved or the goal achieved.