Beyond the Flannel Board

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Revealing the Concept of Story Retelling
· What is Story Retelling?
· Story Retelling as Problem Solving and Analysis
· Benefits of Story Retelling
· Limitations to Implementing Story Retelling Strategies with Young Children

Chapter 2: Developing Language and Understanding in Classroom Settings
· Vocabulary Development
o Doing What Matters: Characteristics of Teaching Vocabulary
· Developing Conceptual Understanding
o …of Words
o …of Narrative Text
o …of Expository Text
o Cultural Variations in the Map

Chapter 3: Implementing Interactive Teaching Strategies for Story Retelling
· What Teachers Do: Characteristics of Teaching for Effective Story-Retelling
o Strategies Before Reading: Selecting the Book and Introducing the Story to Children
o During Reading: Shared and Interactive Strategies
o After Reading: Story-Retelling Strategies
· Putting it All Together: An Emphasis on Interaction

Chapter 4: Designing Story-Retelling Experiences with Development in Mind
· Planning with a Developmental Lens
o Selecting Stories
o Developing Props and Visual Aids
o Teaching with Guided Play
o Scaffolding to Higher Levels
o Coaching Toward Proficiency
o Incorporating the Creative Arts
o Interacting with Children
o Encouraging Retelling to Others
· Guiding Story Retelling with Preschool Children

Chapter 5: Building Social and Emotional Concepts with Story Retelling
· The Social and Emotional Domains
o Developing the Language of Emotions
o Nurturing Friendships and the Social Studies with Preschoolers
· Making Book Selections of Relevance
· Enactments and Retellings as a Safe Way to Explore Behaviors and Emotions

Chapter 6: Supporting Children’s STEM Inquiries through Story Retelling
· STEM as an Integrated Concept
· Inquiry with Young Children
· How Story Retelling fits into Inquiry and STEM
· Selecting Quality Literature for Young Children
· Supporting Children’s Reflections

Chapter 7: Making Number Sense with Story Retelling
· Developing Number Sense for Mathematizing the World
· Number Sense Book Selection Criteria
· Story Retelling for Enacting the Language of Number Sense

Chapter 8: Documenting and Assessing Young Children’s Learning
· Teacher as Inquirer into Children’s Learning
· Documentation
· Assessing Story Retelling
· Assessing Conceptual Understanding
· Other Ways of Assessing
· Analysis
· Sharing the Developmental Stories
o Display Panels and Documentation Panels…
o Quotes, Anecdotal Notes, Videography
o Collaborating with Parents

Resources
· Websites to support story retelling with children
· Publications for teachers supportive of story retelling
· Recommended Children’s Books (organized by curricular themes)
Glossary
References
Index