Retelling and elaboration

participates in story telling activities

with help, participates in singing songs, reciting rhymes, retelling stories, providing accounts, and presenting objects and news

with help, shares a familiar or personalfamiliar or personal story, activity or event using single or multiple words.

exchanges information on a shared experience.

with help, identifies main characters and sequences main points in a narrative.

constructs a story drawing on experiences and orally narrates to a group with support.

gives an account from direct experience sequencing up to three key events.

retells the main points of an unshared event or conversation using a clear structure to an  audience Audience
The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing.  of peers.

creates a short story, identifying main characters and events and tells main points of their own news.

retells a familiar story sequencing key events.

explains a factual account from direct experience to a group, introduces a topic, outlines and describes processes.

sequences events of own news in the correct order and responds to questions on it.

names and describes a problem giving main details and possible solutions. retells a wider range of events in the past, present and future and predicts outcomes.

uses more narrative plots

retells stories, explaining events and outcomes, describing characters, and identifying problems and predicting solutions

begins to sequence events forwards and backwards

describes news and events, elaborating to add detail to improve understanding for the listener

shows a clear structure in narratives with beginning, problem, plan and a resolution

uses backwards and forwards referencing to elaborate on points made

creates long and detailed narratives on complex concepts and events not encountered daily

retells stories, using the language of the text: identifies the title, names and describes characters, sequences events, explains events and outcomes, describes problems and suggests solutions, predicts outcomes and identifies and discusses the moral of the story.

creates engaging oral narratives, making effective use of  aesthetic Aesthetic
The aesthetic dimension of language relates to the use of language imaginatively, creatively and artistically.  , imaginative and figurative language

elaborates using appropriate language, sequencing, register, intonation, pace, gestures, body language

and imagery watches and listens attentively in order to retell complex stories and events, keeping the  audience Audience
The audience is the intended group of readers, listeners, viewers that the writer, designer, or speaker is addressing.  /listener engaged and informed

discusses and reflects on their own and others’ style of oral storytelling, recognising the influence of culture and identity in how stories are told

analyses, synthesises and spontaneously retells stories and events, editing and/or elaborating for specific purposes