Create-a-Story!

We have been using "Create-a-Story" several times this school year and the kids are doing very well with it. Suz on http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ shared this page earlier this school year, it is http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/createa.htm.

We have a 10-sided die that the kids roll, they roll 2 numbers. These numbers tell the kids which "characters", "situations", "places", "objects", etc. on the tables that they will write a story about.

For example, today my daughter rolled a "5" and a "2". So these are the things she needed to include in her story.
1-the desert
2-turning into a grown up
3-a pretty doll
4-in a few days
5-a living statue

Here is the story my 10yr old daughter came up with, I really enjoyed it.

A Desert Boy

Well to start the story, there was this kid that lived in a desert. Now the story begins.

"Hey, Andrew, what are you doing today?"
"Well, I'm going to sell this doll at the market, then I'm going to buy some food for the family and then go home."
"Sounds like you have a busy day."
"Oh, I do. Well see ya later, bye."

A few days passed and Andrew was walking by some rocks he had never seen before. Then he saw a hole in a rock just the right size that he could fit through. So he went in and he saw a live statue talking to a different live statue. So he just walked by. Then he saw a fountain with the clearest and most beautiful water. Since he was so thirsty (he did live in a desert), he just drank and drank and drank. He drank so much he felt like he was going to explode. Not knowing that it was magical water, he instantly turned into a man. And how happy he was knowing that he was a man. He went home and told his parents that he was a man. And his parents asked, "How did you turn into a man?". He said, "I truly do not know!"

And all the rest of his life he still did not know how he became a man. And never again, no matter how hard he looked, he could not find the rocks or the hole.

The End