When a teacher asks you to retell a story, s/he wants you to include the characters (who’s in the story?), setting (where does the story take place?), beginning (what happened in the beginning?), middle (what happened in the middle of the story?), and end of a story (how does the story end?) in your summary. The teacher also wants you to tell the conflict and resolution (what was the problem and how was it solved?). Use transition words like first, next, finally in your retell.