Wide-Mouthed Frog Retelling

          One of my students' favorite books is The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner.  It is a super fun pop-up book about a frog with a huge mouth.  He meets different animal friends and asks them what they like to eat.  One animal he meets is an alligator who likes to eat...you guessed it- wide-mouthed frogs!!  The kids, of course, just absolutely love it!

 

          We practiced retelling each other the important parts of the story first.  Which is really hard not to retell everything, because hey, the whole book is important to them!  Once we got that down, we do a quick sketch of the three important parts.  Then we wrote about each part retelling about the wide-mouthed frog.  Take a look at how they did.  :)

He has a big mouth.  He (alligator) eats frogs.  He (frog) jumps in the water.

He has a big mouth.  He eats frogs.  He jumps.

          I also want to mention that Kaleigh over at Kaleigh's Klassroom was so kind as to award me the Liebster Award!!  She is too nice!  Go on over to her blog and check out her great ideas.  She is new to the blogging world and could use some new followers.  :)