Friday, September 30, 2016

Using Google Story Builder

Story Builder is a Google App which helps students develop their writing skill in an enjoyable way. They can create stories, dialogues, interviews, short plays and much more! As they do not need to have a Google account to start making their own stories, they can learn to use Story Builder quickly and they will be able to navigate it easily.

Students can include up to ten characters which can be used multiple times. Once their stories are ready, they can add a music background. The final step is to give the story a title and copy the link to share it with their partners and the teacher.

This Story I created will be used together with a reader students will be working on in class and at home. They will be asked to read the first chapters at home. After that, they will watch the video in class and discuss the similarities and differences between the paper and online versions of Jumanji.
(Some vocabulary items will be pre-taught and a briefing on Google Story Builder will be provided)

Once the discussion is over, and only if students have not spotted it before, I will ask them to scan the text and find a grammar mistake. I realised there was one after writing the whole story. As editing meant erasing most of my work, I decided to leave it all the same.

Have you seen the film or read the story? Can you spot any differences? Check it out!


1 comment:

  1. Congrats on your work, Vale! You've prepared wonderful tasks using the tools we discussed in our course and with very little help from me! No doubt you are an independent learner who likes to take risks!
    It was great meeting you! Keep up the good work!

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