Teacher tells and animates a great story to the students.
Invite a parent who is a great story teller to tell a story.
Students Create a Brief Story and Share Verbally
Students choose a topic for a story.
Use a theme for the class.
Use the online Link “Story Starters” to create a story topic.
Students Draw three pictures
that will help them tell the story
Students ‘Tell’ their brief story
to the rest of the class.
Student Activity - Discuss the qualities of a great storyteller.
GROUP STORY CHALLENGE
In an Online Collaboration Space that allows for "Forum" or "Discussion" type interaction, students post a Story Starter of their choice, students then add to another students’ story and so on......... line by line a story develops. Students can read all stories being developed and add to them outside of school/class time.
"Your challenge for today is to create a group story. Imagine creating a book with lots of authors! The other authors might be from within your class, in other classes in your school or at other school!"
Advice: As the students enter lines to the story, don't be too concerned about spelling, grammar, punctuation in the first instance. Let the student creativeness flow, then, when the stories are developed, focus on the spelling etc. This could take the form of students working in pairs or small groups to revisit the posts and "Edit" the entries.
or .........
Copy and paste the entries into a Word Processor, project it onto an interactive whiteboard and edit the story as a class.
or .........
Create a New Editable Online Page for each story, paste in the text for each story, assign groups of students to work on editing the story, without changing the overall flow of the story.
WATCH OR LISTEN TO A GREAT STORY
Here are some options:
- Employ a story teller to come to your school
.– bring the schools together for a cluster activity.- View a Story being told online.
Eg. Anne Stewart – The Rainbow Snakehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AA7btVXTc
Students Create a Brief Story and Share Verbally
Use a theme for the class.
Use the online Link “Story Starters” to create a story topic.
that will help them tell the story
to the rest of the class.
Student Activity - Discuss the qualities of a great storyteller.
GROUP STORY CHALLENGE
In an Online Collaboration Space that allows for "Forum" or "Discussion" type interaction, students post a Story Starter of their choice, students then add to another students’ story and so on......... line by line a story develops.
Students can read all stories being developed and add to them outside of school/class time.
"Your challenge for today is to create a group story. Imagine creating a book with lots of authors! The other authors might be from within your class, in other classes in your school or at other school!"
Advice: As the students enter lines to the story, don't be too concerned about spelling, grammar, punctuation in the first instance. Let the student creativeness flow, then, when the stories are developed, focus on the spelling etc. This could take the form of students working in pairs or small groups to revisit the posts and "Edit" the entries.
or .........
Copy and paste the entries into a Word Processor, project it onto an interactive whiteboard and edit the story as a class.
or .........
Create a New Editable Online Page for each story, paste in the text for each story, assign groups of students to work on editing the story, without changing the overall flow of the story.