STORYJUMPER

My STORYJUMPER book: 

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/79278625/5e569ebee9d20

Based on the images, the students must create a story. They would be divided in five groups (as much as parts the story has). Each group must imagine what happens in each part of the story looking at the pictures and writing it, but they have to take into account what has been written previously, since it is going to affect their narration.

We would write a part every day, so five lessons are required to complete the story. Before the first group writes their part, there would be an explanation and presentation day about the activity. In this point, the first page of the story is showed so the first group can create their text to write it down on the following day. Therefore, the whole classroom can read what their classmates have written and the second group would be shown the second page to create their part. In this way till the end. Finally, after having the story completed, there would be a class discussion about what the different groups would have done different, what they like the most, the difficulties they have found, and all they would like to speak about the activity. 

In this activity, students will learn different animal names, they would write about a topic that is relevant for them (the vocabulary is about things they say everyday: school, classroom, classmates, park, playground, football, friends, etc.).  Furthermore, having a new classmate is something very common and this activity would let them reflect on the feelings people (or in this case the unicorn) could have when they do not know anybody in a new city.

Creativity is used because they can add any element to the story they want. The images lead to a clear path, so they can consider it as a easy task to answer, what is positive too, therefore, as it is easy, why not to try to create something funny or interesting? The teacher would encourage them to go further than the images show (with this simplicity but at the same time the possibility of creating more, we work diversity awareness).

I think that what they would like the most is that they can write whatever they want, but at the same time, it could be a bit frustrating since they have as point of departure the previous writing of their classmates what could not match their expectations. It is a challenge.

Next time I would ask my students what they want to write about, so I would prepare the images according to that. The whole project would be read when finished all together in the mentioned last lesson of the activity, when all the process and the result would be commented.