Story RetellingThe Three Billy Goats Gruf

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JMU Student Morgan Ayers Grade Level of Student Assessing Pre-K (3)
Total Score___10__________________

1. Read story to child at least once, then through pictures and talk about what happened in
story
2. Use story figures and model retelling the story using all of the elements (be well practiced)
3. Have child retell story with figureswrite down what child says or record and write down
later
Story Element From Three Billy Goats Gruf What child said in assessment
Setting and Characters Once upon a time, there lived three Once upon a time, there were three billy
billy goat brothers. Their names goats. Little Billy, Middle Billy, and Big Billy.
were Little Billy, Middle Billy, and
Big Billy.
Story Problem One day, they decided to cross the
bridge to eat the sweet grass on
the other side. There was only one
problem. A mean troll lived under
it.
Episode 1 Little Billy tries to cross the bridge The Little Billy went onto the bridge. The
and the troll tries to eat him and he mean troll jumps up from the bridge and
tells him to wait for his bigger says, I want to eat you up. Wait for my
brother. The troll lets him cross the bigger brother, hes much bigger and
bridge. tastier than I am. Okay, says the troll,
licking his lips.
Episode 2 Middle Billy tries to cross the bridge Then his bigger brother came. The troll
and the troll tries to eat him and he jumped up there and said, I want to eat
tells him to wait for Big Billy. The you up. Dont eat me. Wait for my bigger
troll lets him cross the bridge. brother, hes much bigger and stronger
than I am.
Episode 3 Big Billy tries to cross the bridge Then Big Billy started to cross the bridge.
but the troll tries to eat him. Big Clomp, clomp, clomp, clomp. The troll
Billy has a plan to butt the troll off jumped up tried to eat him and Big Billy
the bridge. knocked him down off the bridge.
Resolution Big Billy rams the troll so hard that Big Billy knocked him off the bridge into
he is thrown off the bridge and Big the water.
Billy crosses the bridge to join his
brothers.
Reactions of After that, the three brothers The three billy goats lived happily ever
characters crossed the bridge whenever they after!
liked. And, my, the sweet green
grass was delicious!

Rubric for Scoring Individual Story Elements:

Complete, detailed: 3 Partial: 2 Fragmentary: 1 Inaccurate: 0
Setting and Characters (How, where, who at beginning of story?) Score: __3__
Story Problem Score:
__0__
Sequence of major eventsepisodes 1-3 Score:
__3__
Resolution Score:
__2__
Reaction of characters or ending Score:
__2__
Total Score:
__10__
13-15Strong retelling 9-12Developing retelling 5-8Early 0-4Little story
language
Was the retelling assisted? No

For this retelling assignment, the assessor asked a three-year-old student to retell the story of The Three

Billy Goats Gruff. The assessor read the story to her once and then modeled retelling the story. The student

was excited to tell the story herself as she enjoys doing activities like this. She received a score of 10 out of 15.

Overall, the student was very thorough in her retelling of the story. She received a score of 10 out of 15 because

she retold all of the main parts, but did not include all parts of the specific story problem nor the ending. The

students strength was retelling the sequence of the major events. She included all of the necessary parts and

used good dialogue and even different voices to state exactly what the goats and the troll stated in the book. Her

weakness was not identifying the story problem at the beginning and not ending the story with all of the details

included in the book. The student did not need any assistance when retelling the story.