Build a Story

Submitted by Liz Eagan on Dec 02, 2014
"Build a Story" cover page with animated pencil on a piece of paper with a red background

I have found that our students, like their non visually impaired peers, have trouble creating a story from original thought. I bought the pictured book from Oriental Trading, but it has been discontinued. However, Lakeshore Learning has it.

I like it as the student can flip through the book to find the character, setting, event, and conclusion ideas. They can then create a story around that.

Writing stories is a great way to verify a student's understanding of grammar, spelling, sentence/paragraph structure... not to mention working on editing skills. I like to share the stories with their teachers so that they can also know what skills might need more work and where the strengths are...

 

red page with text "character" and a drawing of a girl, "setting" with a drawing of a school, "event" with a drawing of a microphone and text "in the spelling bee", and "conclusion" and a drawing of a first place ribbon with text "won first place"Click to enlargered page with a drawing and text of "a rabbit" drawing of a garden with text "in a garden" and a drawing of a treasure chest with text "looking for buried treasure"Click to enlarge

 
Variations: 

To adapt it, I simply added the braille to each of the pages. For a low vision student, I would enlarge each of the pages and attempt to recreate the book the same way this one is set up.

Build a story collage

 

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Submitted by Linda Hagood on Dec 15, 2014