Three Billy Goats Gruff Retelling

A retelling assignment was completed with Jacob on March 15. First, the

story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff was read to Jacob, and the pictures in the book

were pointed to as the story was read. Then the story was briefly modeled for Jacob

using paper figures. Finally, Jacob retold the story using the paper figures. His

answers and how he moved the figures was recorded.

Jacob’s biggest area of strength was his sequencing of major events. He

correctly retold the story in the right order of events, and gave appropriate details

to each episode. He also demonstrated engagement and excitement as he completed

the task. His tone went up and down to reflect changes in the story, and lowered his

voice when he was doing the voice of the troll and Big Billy. His greatest weakness

was his setting and characters, and the story problem details. He did not open with

“once upon a time”, and focused more on physically moving the figures than

narrating their actions. I gave him a score of 9 out of 15 because his basic

understanding of the story was good, and he was able to correctly retell the

characters and sequence of events. However, he did not use much story language,

and required a little bit of prompting at times, so his retelling is still developing.