Age: 4-5 years

Duration: 40 min

Objectives

• Listen to a full picture book and sequence 3 events.
• Retell beginning, middle, end with prompts.

Vocab

• first / next / last: Sequencing language.
• Story vocabulary from chosen ORT Stage 2-3 book.

Warm-up (5min)

Cover + title predict. "What might happen?"

Main Activity (25min): "Interactive Read-Aloud"

Teacher reads with stops: "What do you see?" "How does he feel?" After reading, sequence 3 picture cards as a class.

Wrap-up (5min)

Vote: favorite character and one-word reason.

Teacher Tips

• Stop 3-4 times max — don't quiz every page.
• Same book twice in two weeks deepens retell quality.