Retelling Story Strategies

Retelling story strategies for beginners

 

There are some strategies for beginners to improve their language from retelling story subject. Retelling story can be used as an effective tool in improving comprehension as well as assessing it (Jennings, Caldwell, & Learner). According to Hornsby retelling is an activity in which tells ancient of past event (stories) for listener. It includes characters, events and settings are brought life. Retelling story also used to entertain people and to get their interest of the story that has been retold. 

As an English new comer, you have to considered some strategies to make your story be comprehended by the readers or the listeners. Let’s try it on!

1. Prepare your narrative text

Before presenting the story, make sure that you have red the text aloud and repeat to reread it if you feel something is wrong in the pronunciation.

2. Understand the entire reading

For better presentation of your retelling story, try to comprehend the story of your narrative text so that it will lead you easier in improving your ideas. You also can create the words list map to help you remember the difficult words within the text. 

3.  BE confidence of "YOU"

 A good confidence will help you managing all the mistakes that may happen in your description percentage. Be brave for what you have prepared to retell the story. remember that a success of your hard work begins with the good preparation.

 

 Lets try to RETELL this narrative story!!

 The Eagle Who Lived Like a Hen

In a forest an eagle lived on a tree. It had built a nest wherein to lay its eggs. There the eagle would hatch its eggs all through the day.

Under the same tree there lived a hen. The hen had also laid eggs during the same period when the eagle had laid its eggs.

One day, while the eagle had gone for hunting, a bear climbed up the tree to eat the eagle’s eggs. The bear had finished three of the eggs when the fourth one slipped off its hands and fell into the hen’s nest. On returning, the eagle could not find her eggs. Feeling terribly upset, she decided to leave the place.

The hen which lived under the tree saw the eagle’s egg by the side of her eggs. She felt eggs pity on the eagle’s egg, and decided to hatch it too. After a few days, the hen’s chicks hatched. The eagle’s chick hatched, too.

The hen would feed all the chicks, including the eagle’s chick, as if it were her own. Soon the chicks began to grow.

The young chicks would listen to their mother’s sounds and try to imitate her. The eagle’s chick also picked up the hen’s sounds. The chicks would all play together and make lots of noise.

Within no time the hen’s chicks as well as the eagle’s chick grew up to their full size. The eagle’s chick never realized that it was an eagle and not a hen. Considering itself a hen, the eagle would. eat hen’s food, would walk and run like other hens and would make sounds like hens. The eagle never learn to fly like other eagles and lived its whole life like a hen only.

 

VOCABULARY LIST 

1. Forest : Hutan

2. Nest : Sarang

3. Hatch : Menetas

4. Under the same tree : di bawah pohon yang sama

5. Laid : Meletakkan  

6. The same period : Periode yang sama

7. The hen chicks : Anak ayam

8. The eagle chicks : Anak elang

9. Hatch : Menetas

10. Within no time : Dalam waktu singkat

11. Grew up : Dibesarkan

12. Realize : Menyadari

13. Whole life : Seluruh hidup

14. Feeling terribly upset : Merasa sangat kesal

15. Considering : Mempertimbangkan