StoryBoards
Felicity Durham
'StoryBoards' is a simple and fun game resource to help children with language and communication difficulties develop their narrative skills.
Using game boards and colourfully-illustrated picture cards, StoryBoards helps children to visualise and practise telling a story through identifying the essential elements, how these should be sequenced and providing a basic vocabulary.
There are individual boards for four players - larger groups can work in pairs to develop individual stories or work on a single story as a group. Each story element - location, time, transport, object, feeling and weather - is colour-coded for ease of identification.
The activity is presented at two levels - a simple picture framework excluding the concept of time, and a higher-level activity that includes time.
By picking story cards from the different sets, stories can be silly or sensible and children can either stick with their choices or negotiate for a change, which encourages discussion and reasoning. For example, if a child is going to the zoo, would they travel there in a submarine?
Hugely flexible, other activities include: Throwing a story; Lotto; Vocabulary ladders; and Asking questions. StoryBoards can also be used for news time; preparation for visits or holidays; and narrative development.
'StoryBoards' will develop basic vocabulary and encourage active listening, turn-taking, topic maintenance and inferential reasoning. It will help children to contribute at 'News time' and to describe what happens on their school trips or holidays. A structured and accessible resource, StoryBoards is ideal for use with individuals or groups by teachers, speech language therapists and teaching assistants working with young children.
2005, 8 StoryBoards, 2 story cards boards, 90 story cards, 6 lotto boards, 1 double-sided photocopiable story planner, 1 colour-coded die 56pp manual, boxed
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