Show & Tell Template
Name of your writing activity:Making of a story / Trainee Names and Student #’s
Jen(109), Erica(111) / Group #
10
Teaching Context
Level of students
beginner intermediate advanced ▐ mixed
Number of Students
<10 10-20 ▐ 20-40
Other; please specify ______ / Grade Level
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3
Grade 4 ▐ Grade 5 ▐ Grade 6
Class Time
▐ Regular Class Afterschool Class
Activity Description
What is the objective of your writing activity? (Does it support the overall objectives of your chosen lesson?)
(1)Students will be able to collaboratewhen theycreate their stories in their groups.
(2)This activity enforces students to be a creative writer by adding stories each other using the expressions what they’ve learned in the English class.
(3)Students could be “peer tutors” for each other when they work on the English story.
(4)Students will be able to improve writing skills and reading skills as well.
(5)Students will be able to help different level of peers during the activity.
List steps required to perform this activity.
(1)Teacher provides students papers and different colorof pencils for each group. (Groups of 4~6)
(2)Teacher presentsa part of story to motivate students with a movie clip or storytelling.
(3) Each group writesone sentence for their story based on teacher’s story.
(4)When teacher plays music or show sign, students pass their papers around to the next group.
(5)Students add up a line to other groups’ story with their imagination.
(6)After running around 2~3 times, they get their original paper and present it to whole class.
(7)Students listen and vote for the most interesting story.
Adaptation
How could this activity be adapted to different teaching contexts?
(1)Digital storytelling by using web2.0(wikis)
(2)Making role-play scripts for class between lessons as a review.
(3)Writing an open class diary in English by describing their lives.
(4)Doing project-based learning.
(5)Filling up the blank lines between original stories.
Activity Strengths
* Building up Collaboration
*Creativeness and Concentrations
* Consideration and Imagination
* Sense of humor
* Writing and reading skill / Activity Weaknesses
*It might be difficult for low level students to chase the writing activity because the limited time will be given.
*They can’t erase sentences after write it down as they use color pencils.
*Some students who never devote the story could be free-riders.
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