SCOOP Retell Bookmarks

If you have been teaching your students how to give a retell using the SCOOP acronym. These handy bookmarks are the perfect addition to enhance their learning of this acronym to help them give fantastic retells. The elements in the SCOOP retell acronym are:

• Setting
• Characters
• Order of Events
• Oh no!
• Problem solved

Teaching Retell Enhances Comprehension

Teaching your students how to retell a story successfully requires your students to engage with the material actively. By retelling a story or text, they must understand the content well enough to accurately extract and convey its key points. This only deepens their comprehension skills.

Retelling a story can also develop your students’ vocabulary and language skills as they are encouraged to use their words to convey information.

How to Use These SCOOP Retelling Bookmarks

• Provide each student with this handy bookmark to take home so parents understand the vocabulary to use when getting them to retell a story they have read.
• Use the bookmarks during retelling lessons so students can refer to them when writing their own retells.
• When introducing the SCOOP acronym using the SCOOP classroom poster, give students a bookmark to work through each letter together.

Download and Use Today!

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the PDF or editable Google Slide version. Print pages 1 and 2 back to back and on cardstock to ensure the durability of this bookmark. 

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

More SCOOP Resources

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SCOOP Retell Writing Template

Help students give quality retells by using this SCOOP retell writing template.

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SCOOP Retelling Poster

Display this SCOOP retelling poster to help students remember how to give an effective retell.