Dianne De Las Casas

Stories on Board! (eBook, PDF)

Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591588641
• Artikelnr.: 38325663

Autorenporträt

Dianne de Las Casas was a professional storyteller and author of four previous books for Libraries Unlimited and Teacher Ideas Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Individual Work
Group Work
Creating the Game Board
Game Pieces
Types of Game Boards
Creating the Game Board
Common Game Elements
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
Anansi's Hat Shaking Dance
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Beauty and the Beast
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)
Cinderella
The Frog Prince
The Gingerbread Man
Goldie Locks and the Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
Henny Penny
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack Seeks His Fortune
The Lion and the Mouse
The Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
Natasha and Baba Yaga
Paul Bunyan and the Great Popcorn Blizzard
Pecos Bill
The Princess and the Bean
Rapunzel
Sody Sallyraytus
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
The Tortoise and the Hare
Source Notes