StoryBoards helps children to visualize and practice telling a story through identifying the essential elements, how these should be sequenced and providing a basic vocabulary. 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. It can be easily incorporated into classroom activities.

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, feelings and weather - is color-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. These 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.

Hugely flexible, other activities include:

• Throwing a story
• Lotto
• Find a pair
• Vocabulary ladders
• Asking questions

Written by Felicity Durham
8 StoryBoards
1 story cards board
60 story cards
6 lotto boards
Reproducible story planner
Color-coded dice
Manual
Ages: 6-10