Meet with a child between the ages of three and six. Read a story aloud to the child and then ask the child to retell the story.  Write a three paragraph reflection on the retell, including the following components:

• Paragraph one – Overview the experience and the types of information the child included in the retell.
• Paragraph two – Analyze the child’s retell and focus on the strategic actions the child was utilizing. 
• Paragraph three – Make recommendations for future instruction based on the child’s retell.

Support your statements with evidence from the required studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Required Studies

The following materials are Required Studies for this week. Complete these studies at the beginning of the week, and save these materials for future use.

• Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook (Pinnell & Fountas, 2011)

• Section Three: Support Emergent Readers
• Section Five: Learning About Letters, Sounds, and Words
• Section Six: Assessment of Literacy Learning
• Read, Write, Play, Learn: Literacy Instruction in Today’s Kindergarten (Rog, 2011)

• Chapter 6: “Read it Again!”: Making the Most of the Interactive Read-Aloud
• Chapter 7: “All Together Now!”: Shared Reading with Bog Books, Poems, and Posters
• Chapter 8: “Now I Use My Strategies”: Small-Group Reading Instruction in Kindergarten
• Chapter 9: “We Can Read!”: The Power of Independent Reading
• Explore
• Mem Fox (n.d.) [Website]
• Pay special attention to the Ten Read-Aloud Commandments [Web page]
• View