Field Research

Reading aloud to children plays an important role in a child's literacy development. This type of experience allows the child to construct meaning from the text. Engaging in dialogue before, during and after reading helps the child to better understand the story.  A way to check for a child's understanding of the story is to have the child retell the story.

Problem:

When students are retelling a story it is often out of sequence and missing many details.  Since their retelling is not complete, the students may be missing the comprehension of the story also. This investigation will lead to answering the question:  Does scaffolding and engaging in conversations throughout the reading of a story improve the student's retelling of that story thus enhancing the student's story comprehension as assessed through a retelling rubric?

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