Fostering children\u27s comprehension abilities through story retelling

Children\u27s involvement in whole units of language can facilitate opportunities to create meaning and to interact with others, therefore strengthening thinking and language abilities (Goodman, 1986). Parents and teachers can become facilitators of whole language by offering children many opportunities to hear stories. Trelease (1982) describes how children who hear many stories develop a strong motivation for reading, learn that reading can be enjoyable, and discover that reading and writing are sense-making experiences instead of activities dealing with language fragments as offered in many workbook pages and worksheets