Retelling exercises Archives - Gudlenieks https://gudlenieks.lv/en/category/retelling-exercises/ Educational games, worksheets and tasks for kids. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:49:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://gudlenieks.lv/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-cropped-logo-transparent-32x32.png Retelling exercises Archives - Gudlenieks https://gudlenieks.lv/en/category/retelling-exercises/ 32 32 Photo orientation in the Tervete (Latvia) dwarf town https://gudlenieks.lv/en/photo-orientation-in-the-tervete-latvia-dwarf-town/ https://gudlenieks.lv/en/photo-orientation-in-the-tervete-latvia-dwarf-town/#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:48:01 +0000 https://gudlenieks.lv/?p=7245 Next time when you go to Tērvete and visit the Tērvete Dwarf Town, print out a few pages with photo orientation tasks. Photo orientation “Photo orientation” is done based on photographs, either along a specific route or within a specific area. You can definitely try it at home by yourself. […]

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]]> Next time when you go to Tērvete and visit the Tērvete Dwarf Town, print out a few pages with photo orientation tasks.

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Photo orientation

“Photo orientation” is done based on photographs, either along a specific route or within a specific area. You can definitely try it at home by yourself.

Take photos of objects and give children the task of finding the photographed objects. Depending on the age of the children, you should also choose the difficulty level of the objects to be found.

Photo orientation can be a fun activity at children’s parties. It can be done individually, in teams, or all together, with or without time limits.

LVM Nature Park in Tērvete (Latvia)

We have been there many times, and we go there practically every year. Last time we took pictures of objects so that this year we can have our children and their friends search for them. With or without photo orientation, it is definitely a great place for a family walk and relaxation.

Who are these photo orientation pages intended for?

In addition to families, photo orientation task sheets can also be useful for kindergarten groups, school excursions, as an additional activity for children. Parents, teachers, educators can prepare small gifts for children for successfully completing the tasks, which can serve as an additional source of motivation to find all the objects.

Download the photo orientation task

Fill out the form and receive a printable sheet with photo orientation tasks in Tērvete Dwarf Town. If you wish for a different version, fill out the form again and you will receive a different variation.

Print out the sheets and take them with you to Tērvete Nature Park to search for objects in Tērvete Dwarf Town. Please note that sometimes one of the objects in the photo orientation may be temporarily removed for maintenance work, which we cannot predict, so it may happen that a certain object may not be found.

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]]> https://gudlenieks.lv/en/photo-orientation-in-the-tervete-latvia-dwarf-town/feed/ 0 The letters are mixed up in places. https://gudlenieks.lv/en/the-letters-are-mixed-up-in-places/ https://gudlenieks.lv/en/the-letters-are-mixed-up-in-places/#respond Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:54:26 +0000 https://gudlenieks.lv/?p=6832 We have created educational materials for home-based education that develop a child’s reading and writing skills, as well as logical thinking. There are 10 printable children’s worksheets, each containing 6 examples, where letters need to be arranged in the correct order to form a word. The illustration provides a hint […]

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]]> We have created educational materials for home-based education that develop a child’s reading and writing skills, as well as logical thinking. There are 10 printable children’s worksheets, each containing 6 examples, where letters need to be arranged in the correct order to form a word. The illustration provides a hint that the word is jumbled.

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Who are these printable educational materials intended for?

The printable tasks for children are suitable for preschool-age children, as well as those who have just started their school journey – six-year-olds, seven-year-olds, but depending on the child’s readiness, even five-year-olds or younger children can do them.

Parents should explain in advance if there is any illustration the child doesn’t understand or if they don’t know the word itself. This way, the child also expands their vocabulary.

By completing the tasks, the child learns to recognize letters, learn to read, and learn to write letters. It also trains logical thinking, as each task is like a little puzzle.

The digital collection can be used as a teaching material at home, in kindergartens, other preschool educational institutions, schools, as well as in Montessori education.

What is in these printable worksheets?

An excellent addition to the preschool collection of activities. The set of tasks includes 10 worksheets with 6 examples on each page. The child needs to arrange the letters in the correct order to form a word. Next to the word, there is an illustration to make it easier to guess the word and arrange the letters in the correct order.

Is the writing task too easy for a preschool-aged child?

The child finds these tasks boring. Maybe it’s worth trying tasks with missing letter

Lost letters “pro” version – in exercise there are multiple missing letters

Is the writing task too easy for a preschool-aged child?

Let’s step back and give simpler tasks. Overly complicated tasks can discourage the desire to learn. From time to time, the child needs to be given something easier, so they understand that they can handle the tasks quite well. You can let the child choose for themselves, either several pages with easy tasks or one worksheet with more challenging ones.

If you feel that this task is too difficult for the child, let’s provide easier worksheets for reading skills. For example, worksheets with missing letters, where one letter from the word is missing.

Lost letters

How can I get free worksheets for children?

  • Fill out the form.
  • We will send a link to printable worksheets for preschool.
  • Download the printable task sheets.
  • Print using your available printer.
  • Complete the tasks together with the children.
  • Fill out the form again to get another worksheet variant.
  • Share the task sheets with others, post on social networks.

Download free printable worksheets

Fill out the form and we will send you a link to printable worksheets. The printable task sheets consist of 10 pages, each containing 6 examples. In the examples, there is an illustration and a word where the letters are jumbled. Children need to arrange the letters in the correct order.

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Didn’t find what you were looking for? We also have other tasks for children’s cognitive development.

In addition to this practical activity, we also have other printable educational materials – worksheets for mathematics in preschool, free printable worksheets for developing reading and writing skills, printable for counting of objects in worksheets, and other printable digital resources.

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]]> Both kids will and adults will like it. This printable visual illusion features a dragon that appears to come to life when you close one eye. it will look like the dragon is watching you, turning his head and following your movement. This effect can also be observed when filming with a camera.

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You will need

  • Printer for printing out the worksheet
  • Pencils for colouring (optional, but it can be an extra task for children)
  • Scissors to cut out dragon
  • Glue pencil (not mandatory, but more convenient, the alternative is to fold and hook the special “hooks”)

Video with end result

The video is with T-Rex, not dragons, but the effect is exactly the same, only in real life you have to close one eye for the illusion to work.

Download printable visual illusion – dragon

  • Download the visual illusion – dragons
  • Print it out
  • Color the dragon
  • Cut it out, fold it and glue it
  • Close one eye
  • Turn the dragon and see how it comes to life and watches the watcher

Visual illustration – dragon – if the link is not working anymore, fill the form to get the file.

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]]> https://gudlenieks.lv/en/dragon-visual-illusion-printable-optical-illusion-for-kids-and-adults/feed/ 0 Evening story https://gudlenieks.lv/en/evening-story/ https://gudlenieks.lv/en/evening-story/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:45:21 +0000 https://gudlenieks.lv/?p=693 Sometimes before the bed we are reading fairy tales. Sometimes comics, other times listening to the audio fairy tales. But lately we are telling our own stories, fairy tales. Its interesting to listen to the children imagination in work, stories that sometimes provide of some useful insights. For example, on […]

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]]> Sometimes before the bed we are reading fairy tales. Sometimes comics, other times listening to the audio fairy tales. But lately we are telling our own stories, fairy tales.

Its interesting to listen to the children imagination in work, stories that sometimes provide of some useful insights. For example, on of the kids was telling story about Christmas and what presents each was getting, so that was helpfull information about what kind of toys, games are actual.

When kids are telling, retelling stories they are learning how to express their imagination into words. At first was pretty hard for them tell some story. And at start i was giving the example.
Was telling my story and was involving them into it on the way, tricking them to shape the story with some details.

For example, if story would have three characters, then i would ask them to name them or tell what animals there were. “The Lion wore a shirt. I cant think of what kid of shirt it was warning…. Can you help me to think about what color the shirt was?”

Sometimes we are passing the story to next one to continue, then to next one and so one. Btw, this is also good activity to do in children parties, or on Halloween evening.

We recommend this to tryout. This trains children imagination and story telling skills.

When we get lazy we are retelling that days events. Trying to tell in smallest details possible so that we would train different words, adjectives. Even if it was routine day one can find some interesting details to tell.

Same as with stories, the day events can be passed around, so everybody tells some part of the day, what was happening. Not always whole day have been spent with kids, rather the other way round. For example:” Took you to the kindergarten, hugged and said goodbye. Then jumped in our silver car, that has black wheels. I dont know what happened in kinder-garden. Please, tell me what was happening till we met again in evening?”

One more way how to involve kids in stories is “wrong stories”. Usually i am retelling days events, and mixing up some parts with “fake news”.
For example:” In the morning we got up and went to bathroom to wash our teeth, we took toothbrush and put small amount of chocolate and started to clean up our shoes.”
Children:”No, no….. that was not what happened.” Then i ask:” So how it was really?” – then they retell same thing but corrected. Best thing is if if kids are retelling full sentence, not just wrong parts. This is really fun thing to do.
If kid is correcting only one thing “we brushed teethes, not the shoes”.
Then parent can restart the same sentence but mix up other parts:”So, in morning we woke up, went to living-room, took the toothbrush put small amount of chocolate on toothbrush and started to clean our teethes”… and so on till the sentence is fully corrected by children.

So these are some examples how we “force” our kids to talk, tell stories. Do you have some other interesting ways how to “trick” kids in retelling stories?

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