Story extensions

Skeleton story - Give students a brief, basic story, and have them add details.

Follow-up Activities After a Story - CI compatible ideas for activities to do with students after a story

Sentence/Story Builder - Teacher begins a story. Ask a student to add a detail. Each time the teacher repeats the story as it builds and then asks another student to add the next detail.

Story Creation - Each student is given a word, all must be used to create a class story. As the student is called on they share their word, it must be incorporated in the story at that moment. The whole class writes as the story unfolds.

Change Perspectives - Take a story in the third person and as a class, change it to the first person. Could possibly provide the students with a copy in the third person and they then follow/listen to the teacher and cross off and make changes on the sheet as changes occur from the third to the first person.

Props to skit - In groups or at each different school, students are told to each bring a prop/assigned props. Then in class, they get out their props, create a story with the props and present/read/act to class, etc.

Open ended story - Teacher provides (oral and written) a story in which the students write the ending.

Blind reenactment - In pairs a student reads a story to another and the other acts it out as they read it.

Quien lo dijo?/Quien lo hizo? - Based on a story, the teacher makes a statement or provides a quote. Teacher then asks "Quien lo dijo? or "Quien lo hizo?"

Quick Create - In small groups, students create a quick story they will act out in 30 seconds. Give them approx. ten mins. to create it and decide how they will act it out. They may use props available in the room. Then, one group moves to front and acts their story out. The teacher quickly thinks of the story line. The actions must make the story line obvious. The group, again, acts out the mini-story but this time the teacher narrates it at the same time for input based on what the teacher thinks. Afterwards, group clarifies if the teacher interpreted the story correctly.

MIP (Most Important Point) - students read a passage and then decide what is the most important point.

Talkathon - Students stand, they must say something about a story but cannot say exactly what someone else said. They sit once the teacher has called on them and they have said something. By the time they are all seated, the entire story will most likely have been retold.

Reader's Theater (from Karen Rowan) - Student(s) come to front of the room and act out story as told/read by teacher.