Adventure!
The children will look at a range of visual stimuli, and respond by creating their own interpretation of what is happening in the picture.
Story Generator
The below link, will connect with a site which gives the children stimulus about what to include in their adventure stories. This site is divided up in to different class levels, so is therefore suitable for all age ranges.
Teaching Ideas/Suggested Activities:
You can either roll all for tumblers at the same time or roll them one by one and have the children what they think the next condition will be.
I think it would be best to do this as a class on the interactive whiteboard for all to see. I would leave it there and have all the children write a story based on these conditions.
At a later date, when having the children write their own stories, if any children are stuck I would use this activity and allow children to take inspiration from it if they wished.
The site accounts for all different styles of writing (journal, story, letter, etc.), so depending on whether on the teacher is focusing on one style of writing, you may have to spin the dial a few times in order to get the response that you want.
Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy
The below link, will connect with a site which gives the children stimulus about what to include in their adventure stories. This site is divided up in to different class levels, so is therefore suitable for all age ranges.
Teaching Ideas/Suggested Activities:
You can either roll all for tumblers at the same time or roll them one by one and have the children what they think the next condition will be.
I think it would be best to do this as a class on the interactive whiteboard for all to see. I would leave it there and have all the children write a story based on these conditions.
At a later date, when having the children write their own stories, if any children are stuck I would use this activity and allow children to take inspiration from it if they wished.
The site accounts for all different styles of writing (journal, story, letter, etc.), so depending on whether on the teacher is focusing on one style of writing, you may have to spin the dial a few times in order to get the response that you want.
Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy
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Writing Prompt: Adventure in Another Land
The children will be asked to imagine what it would be like to go on an adventure in another world.
Teaching Ideas/ Suggested Activities: What type of creatures would there be? Who would accompany you? What is the purpose of the adventure? Is it safe?
Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy, History (Myths and Legends)
The children will be asked to imagine what it would be like to go on an adventure in another world.
Teaching Ideas/ Suggested Activities: What type of creatures would there be? Who would accompany you? What is the purpose of the adventure? Is it safe?
Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy, History (Myths and Legends)
Writing Prompt: Message in a Bottle
The children will be show a physical message in a bottle and speculate what the message might contain. Teaching Ideas/ Suggested Activities: Why did this person write the letter? Who were they hoping would receive it? Where did they send it from? Why didn't they use a phone? Why did they have the bottle, paper and pen but no phone? What do you think they wrote? At a later stage, I would have the children write their own message in a bottle. What would they ask for? Why? Who would you send it to? Why do you have to send it in the first place? Curriculum Linkage: English Writing (Letters), Drama (Role Play) |
Writing Prompt: Wishing Well
The children will discuss what it would be like if their wishes came true. Teaching Ideas/ Suggested Activities: Have you ever been to a wishing well? What would you wish for? What would the world be like if everyone's wishes came true? What do you think is beneath a wishing well? I will also let the children watch 'The Wishing Well Scene' from The Goonies movie (1985). Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy, SPHE (discuss the differences between needs and wants, put their wishes into a metaphorical wishing well) |
Writing Prompt: Minion
The children will write an adventure story about minions. Teaching Ideas/ Suggested Activities: What would you get up to if had a minion for a week? What would you do together? Would it be for good or evil? How would you communicate? What does it look like? Does it look like an ordinary minion or is it one you have invented yourself? Curriculum Linkage: English Literacy, Art (Construction - The children will make their own version of a minion) |