Transcript The Mitten: Story Retell

The Mitten: Story Retell
Author and Illustrator: Jan Brett
PowerPoint created by: Amber DuVall, M.ED, CCC-SLP Dec. 2010
Let’s use Braidy to help us tell the
story, The Mitten!
There once was a _boy_ named Nicki ...
Who?
Who?
Winter at his
It was _______
When? (What season?)
_____
__ _house in the ______.
Grandma’s
forest
Where? (Whose house?)
Where?
Baba to knit
Nicki wanted ______
Who?
him snow-white ________
mittens so he
What?
could play outside in the snow.
Nicki was very _______
excited when Baba decided
How did he feel?
to knit snow-white mittens for him, but Baba
was _________
worried that Nicki might lose his
How did she feel?
mittens in the white snow.
Nicki went outside to play. Suddenly,
as Nicki was climbing a tree,
_____________________________!
he
dropped his mitten in the snow
What happened? What is the problem?
First, a ______
mole burrowed inside the mitten to
What animal?
get warm and cozy.
Next, a ______
rabbit showed his kickers and climbed
What animal?
inside the mitten to get warm and cozy.
Then, a hedgehog
_________ climbed inside the mitten
What animal?
to get warm and cozy, jostling the other two.
After that, an owl
____ showed his glinty talons and
What animal?
climbed inside the mitten to get warm and cozy.
Right after the owl, a _______
badger showed his
What animal?
diggers and climbed inside the mitten to get
warm and cozy.
A waft of warm air attracted a ___,
fox who showed
What animal?
his teeth and climbed inside the mitten to get
warm and cozy.
Then, a big brown _____
bear climbed inside the
What animal?
mitten to get warm and cozy, and the mitten
bulged to the limit.
Finally, a tiny _______
mouse climbed inside the mitten
What animal?
to get warm and cozy, and sat on top of the
bear’s nose.
sneezed and blew all the animals out
The bear _______
of the mitten!
Nicki found his mitten floating in
In the end, ____________________________
the blue sky
___________.
glad that Nicki was safe and he still
Baba was _____
What did she feel?
had his new mittens.