Summarizing Rumpelstiltskin - Grade 5

In fifth grade this week, we practiced the Somebody / Wanted / But / So / Then method of summarizing a story. Here is what the students came up with for Rumplestiltskin after I read them Paul O. Zelinsky's retelling:

Source: http://www.paulozelinsky.com/rumpelstiltskin.html

• The king wanted the girl to use the [straw] to make gold, but she didn't know how to do it. So a tiny man did it for her. Then he asked for stuff that she had. - MA



• The king wanted gold, but didn't have it. So he used a girl to make gold of straw, and then the king married the girl. - CS



• The queen wanted help making gold, but R. wanted her baby when she got married unless she figured out his name. So she sent a servant to find out his hame. Then she kept her baby because she found out his name was Rumpelstiltskin. - OG



• R. wanted the queen's baby, but she didn't want to give the baby away. So he said "Guess my name in three days." Then the servant snuck up on him and heard his name and told the queen, and she guessed his name and kept the baby. - MQ



• The queen wanted to keep her son, but she had to figure out the little man's name. So she looked for every name possible and sent her servant to find out the little man's name. Then the little man came back and the queen told [him] that his name was Rumpelstiltskin. - KV



• R. wanted the girl's baby, but she guessed his name. So she got to keep her baby; then she lived happily ever after. - HC



• R. wanted the miller's daughter's first child, but the girl refused to give it to him. So he gave her three days to guess his name and [be able to] keep her child. Then the miller's daughter guessed it right and got to keep her daughter. - MG

Common Core standard addressed: SL.5.2 - Summarize a written text read aloud