- 120 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis. Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool. In Stories on Board!: Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales, award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas shows how it's done, allowing students to create their own board games with a unique method that integrates learning and fun. With Stories on Board!, students read and listen to popular folktales, analyze the structure of the story through story mapping, and then create a board game based on their analysis, engaging their aural, visual, and tactile skills. The lesson culminates in a Game Day in which the students play each other's games. The technique is a great way to introduce a unit on folktales, covering language arts and social studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Stories on Board! Process
- A Brief History of Board Games
- Introduction to Stories on Board!
- Meeting Benchmarks Using the Stories on Board! Method
- Warm-up
- Game Playing with Grades K-2
- Mapping Out the Story
- Vocabulary
- Individual and Group Work
- Creating the Game Board
- Playing the Game
- Storing the Game
- Culminating Event: Game Day
- Suggested Assessment Criteria for Game Boards
- Stories on Board! Assessment Rubric
- Lesson Extensions and Other Connections
- Reproducible Board Games for Grades K-2
- Game Board Patterns
- Stories
- Source Notes