Originally developed by Ben Slavic in the early days of TPRS, OWIs have evolved to become one of the go to activities in CI classrooms, especially in small classes or classes where acting out a story is not an option. In this video you will see the creation of an OWI and how to use the artist's image for more input and some easy output.
Here is the artwork created by my artist from the OWI above:
Here is the text from our OWI:
You can watch us take our character that we created this day and create a second story about him during the following class with a One Verb Story here.
Tina Hargaden has created an entire curriculum based on these images with absolutely amazing results. Check out her work here.