Stories and words
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Thinking sheet · Stories and words
Same Story, New Narrator
Retell a story you know from the point of view of someone in the background: the pet, the tree, the mouse.
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Stories and words
- Kids practice
- point of view, retelling, voice
What kids do
“Pick a story you know. Now let someone else tell it!”
- The story: … New narrator:
- My new narrator
- What they saw that nobody else noticed:
- Start the story in their voice: “I was there the whole time…”
How to run it
- Use a class read-aloud or a fairy tale everyone knows.
- Background characters see things the hero doesn’t.
- Use “I” to write in the narrator’s voice.
Talk about it
- How did the story change?
- What did your narrator care about?
- Who would be the funniest narrator?
Take it further
Act out your version for the class.
Pairs well with
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