📖 Story Stones Retell

Piedras de Cuentos

📖 Literacy & Language RL.K.2RL.K.3SL.K.4
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Objective: Child tells and retells a story with a beginning, middle, and end using picture prompts.

⏱️ ~30 min 🧺 2 min setup · pretend· art

🧺 Materials

  • smooth stones or paper circles
  • a marker
  • a basket or bowl

📋 Instructions (parent)

  1. Draw a simple picture on each stone or paper circle: a sun, a dog, a house, a tree, a star.
  2. Put the story stones in the basket and shake them up.
  3. Pull out two or three stones and start a story together using those pictures.
  4. Encourage a clear beginning ('Había una vez...'), a middle, and an ending.
  5. When the story is done, ask the child to retell it from the start in their own words.

➕ Extension ideas

  • Act out the story with movements and silly voices for each character.
  • Draw the story as a three-box comic: beginning, middle, and end.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

Español
Estas son nuestras piedras de cuentos. Vamos a sacar unas piedras y con sus dibujos inventamos un cuento juntos. Empezamos con 'Había una vez...'. ¿Qué pasa primero? ¿Y al final? Después tú me cuentas el cuento otra vez.

💬 Conversation prompts

  • ¿Cómo empieza nuestro cuento?
  • ¿Qué pasa en el medio de la historia?
  • ¿Cómo termina el cuento?
  • ¿Quién es el personaje principal?
  • ¿Me cuentas el cuento otra vez con tus palabras?

🔑 Vocabulary

  • cuento — story
  • piedra — stone
  • personaje — character
  • empezar — to begin
  • final — ending
  • inventar — to make up
  • contar — to tell

Other ways to do it

⚡ 5-minute version

Pull one stone and tell a quick one-sentence story about it.

🚗 Car version

Make up a story together using things you see out the window.

😴 No-energy version

Retell a favorite bedtime story quietly, naming the beginning and the end.

🎯 California standards covered

RL.K.2 Retelling Stories
“I can retell a story I know and remember the important parts.”
RL.K.3 Characters, Settings & Events
“I can name the characters, tell where a story happens, and say what happens in it.”
SL.K.4 Describing Things
“I can describe people, places, and things that I know about.”
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