strategy 17:
Story Vines
What is it? History can be told as a story in a sequence, and story vines make great prompts to enhance the understanding of the sequence of events in history. Story vines and readers theatre are two learning strategies that engage all learners in meaningful literacy learning and provide success. They involve collaboration and cooperation. Students work together to support each other and to problem solve with story and text. Purpose? Story vines enhance reading, writing, listening, speaking, representing and viewing. These are all of the language skills that teachers strive to develop in children. Student engagement, along with immersion in language and literacy, demonstrations, expectations of success, increased student responsibility, increased student employment, approximations, and feedback, are essential conditions in both story vines and readers theatre that make them successful instructional approaches. Implementation: A story vine works well because sequence is key to the “how to” process. The representations on the vine assist the student in remembering or retelling the steps in a “how to” process. Some examples of content might be science experiments, how to build anything (a rocket, a snowman, a grilled cheese sandwich), how to care for your pet, or how to make a friend. Steps According to M. Mckay (2008), the process of creating a story vine from start to finish has four stages: A. Modeling, B. Planning and Preparing, C. Creating the story vine and D. Presenting and Sharing. A: Modeling
B: Planning and Preparing
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