2. Noun. A second or subsequent telling. ¹
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Definition of Retelling
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retelling
Literary usage of Retelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guided Reading Basics: Organizing, Managing and Implementing a Balanced by Lori Rog (2003)
"The most basic level of reader response is the literal retelling, ... Summarizing is
a more sophisticated level of retelling, in that it involves analyzing ..."
2. Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"Also, partners can hold each other accountable for the qualities of good retelling
by asking for characters' names, setting, important events, and so on. •! ..."
3. Composition and Rhetoric by William M. Tanner (1922)
"Third method: retelling by expanding. The third method of retelling another ...
Perhaps the most common example of retelling by expanding is to be found in ..."
4. Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonfiction K-5 by Tony Stead (2006)
"... Art of Retelling When teaching children to retell information in nonfiction
texts, I show them how to take notes by writing down only a few important ..."
5. Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools by Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson (1901)
"CHAPTER III Retelling ANOTHER PERSON'S THOUGHT I cannot tell how the truth may
he; I say the tale as 't was said to me. — SCOTT. I. INTRODUCTION 62. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"... the nausea (seventh day). occasional retelling to vomit (seventh day).—Slight
nausea and retching (immediately), (first day). ..."
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