Use Story Builder is to retell a moment in history or a social studies or science concept. Sharing some samples on the interactive whiteboard or projector have the students or groups of students create their own Story Builder and retell a story or tell a story from a single character's point of view. Assign student groups to tell a story related to the curriculum is a goal at the beginning of a unit with what I want to know questions or use for the end of a unit as a review. Share student Story Builders with a link on your website or blog. In math class have students explain a procedure using Story Builder. Use Story Builder to create drama scripts or to demonstrate writing skills. Have "Annie Adjective" add colorful words to a draft while "Pete Punctuation" proofs for errors. Have students collaborate to create their own "live" edit sessions using an anonymous student draft you provide or from their OWN writing. By naming the character who is making changes, they can show what they are emphasizing, such as Sam Support adding supporting details when writing informational texts. Teachers of gifted could challenge students to create "epistolary" tales using this tool. Once they discover it, your gifted students will come up with new ways to share projects using this tool (and a little humor).
Anticipatory Set
Retelling
Students could use this web tool to retell a story they have read, a historical event they have learned about or even steps to take to solve a math problem. Critical thinking really comes to play since it only allows them to have 10 interactions between characters. Students will have to figure out how to get everything in. Great summarizing practice too. The first example I embedded into this post shows a retelling of The Three Little Pigs using Google Story Builder.
Writing with Voice
Using Gone Google Story Builder would be such a FUN and meaningful activity to practice writing with a voice as well as characterization. Students can take on the "voice" of a certain character whether that be a specific person, animal or thing! It would even be fun to use this in social studies to review historical figures. Teachers or you could partner students up on one computer and have them write a conversation or story as if they were that person, animal or thing.
Word Work/Language Arts Skills
Another idea for using this story builder in your classroom is to have students create videos by having the "characters" be the word features they are working on. Parts of speech, affixes, different verb tenses, r-controlled vowels, or whatever the feature of the week is could all be practiced. You could also really target language arts skills such as literary devices which can help a lot.
Enhancing Videos
This tool is used for setting the stage for a lesson. It is actually, inspired students to write posts after they heard the teacher taught a lesson last week ago. You can't imagine how Gone Google Story Builder is a quick, easy and straight up AWESOME tool. It would incorporate the students into the classroom. Teachers showed how they used this web tool to kick off a lesson. For instance, let's say you are getting ready to teach a lesson about the water cycle. Captivate your students' attention with something like this before starting the lesson.
Retelling
Students could use this web tool to retell a story they have read, a historical event they have learned about or even steps to take to solve a math problem. Critical thinking really comes to play since it only allows them to have 10 interactions between characters. Students will have to figure out how to get everything in. Great summarizing practice too. The first example I embedded into this post shows a retelling of The Three Little Pigs using Google Story Builder.
Using Gone Google Story Builder would be such a FUN and meaningful activity to practice writing with a voice as well as characterization. Students can take on the "voice" of a certain character whether that be a specific person, animal or thing! It would even be fun to use this in social studies to review historical figures. Teachers or you could partner students up on one computer and have them write a conversation or story as if they were that person, animal or thing.
Word Work/Language Arts Skills
Another idea for using this story builder in your classroom is to have students create videos by having the "characters" be the word features they are working on. Parts of speech, affixes, different verb tenses, r-controlled vowels, or whatever the feature of the week is could all be practiced. You could also really target language arts skills such as literary devices which can help a lot.
Enhancing Videos
Gone Google Story Builder would be a great addition to a video your students are creating. In order to capture the video to pull into a video editing program, students would need to screencast the final product. If you have QuickTime software already on your devices, that would be an easy way to accomplish this task. For those of you who work with Chromebooks, check out the extensions Nimbus Screenshot, Screencastify, or Capture Cast. Read about these three options HERE.
References
Julie. (March 20, 2017). 5 Ways to Use Gone Google Story Builder in the Classroom. [Educator]. Retrieved from http://www.thetechieteacher.net
References
Julie. (March 20, 2017). 5 Ways to Use Gone Google Story Builder in the Classroom. [Educator]. Retrieved from http://www.thetechieteacher.net
Kristinia Haney. (Jul 29, 2014). Google Story Builder Instructions. [video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/XIr5kBoqFeY
Search&Rescue. (Jul 28, 2014). StoryBuilder - The Three Little Pigs. [video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/G2bNWSezJAk
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