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What's the Story?

Students will have fun with story sequencing as they arrange and rearrange scenes into different stories.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Paper
  • Poster Board

Steps

  • Step 1

    Most stories have a clear beginning, middle, and end. This is the basic narrative structure, the linear or chronological structure. But there are other forms, including a circular structure in which the story ends where it begins and the nonlinear or fractured structure that tells a story out of order. This can help highlight a theme or give an ending more "punch." Using different literary techniques such as these can add depth and excitement to a story.

  • Step 2

    Have students form teams, and ask each team member to write and illustrate a scene on a small piece of paper. Have them pool their scenes and arrange them on a piece of poster board. Can they create a cohesive story out of the individual scenes? Now ask them to rearrange the scenes and come up with a new story.

  • Step 3

    Have student teams compare some of their story arrangements and then discuss how using out-of-the-box thinking when creating any form of art boosts creativity and broader perspectives.

Standards

LA: Write using words, numbers, and images to inform and explain, share experiences, and create narratives, either fictional or non-fictional.  

LA: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Adaptations

Have student teams choose scenes from a book the class has read. Ask each member to identify and illustrate a key scene from the story. Then have them arrange the scenes out of order and come up with a new narrative that makes sense of the rearranged order.

Have students dramatize one of the stories they arranged with their art.