The Grade 4s wrote and illustrated lovely stories using Google Slides

I wanted the class to practise their story-writing skills digitally. A great application for story-writing is Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. We used Google Slides. The story templates came from the wonderful site: Communications4All:  
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/http/StoryMaker.htm

How did we go about the lesson? 

1. First we looked at the story map image also found on the Communication4All website http://bit.ly/2P9lU71. I wanted the students to be aware that a good story always has a problem in it that needs to be solved. 

2. Then I wrote a story called 'The Fairy and the Three Wishes' along with the class using one of the templates from the  Communication4All website.  We followed the steps of the Story Map. This was to show the class how it was done,  and to let them see the finished example. We read through this story together. 

The Fairy and the Three Wishes by Fiobea

   

 3. The students then chose our individual stories from the Communication4All website. The students wrote their stories and illustrated them. They turned them in using Google Classroom so that I could take a look at them.

Here are some of the finished examples 

 Kalben ‘The Pirates of the Ocean’

   

The Superhero Who Saved The Day by Lilnas

  

The Three Pirates by Isasim