Story Telling through Language Arts

Goal: 1. The student will be able to tell the story from a picture of the activities completed during the school year.
2. The students will be able to write a sentence about the story within the picture.
3. The student will place these pictures in a scrapbook to be able to tell the story to others.

As student activities unfold, (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Plays, Musical, etc), the students will take pictures of these activities. After the pictures are developed, the students will place the pictures within a scrapbook. The students will then begin to tell the teacher the story that is in the pictures. As the students tell the story, the teacher will make some notes of what the students share with her. Example: "In this picture, Johnny is making a Christmas gift for his mother and father." The teacher will encourage the students to write their own sentences about the story in the picture. The teacher will be their to guide them through spelling, grammar, punctuation. Each student who is able, will write a sentence about the pictures. The students who are not able to do this skill will dictate their sentence to the teacher and the teacher will write it for them. They may also choose between two sentences already written for them by the teacher.
The students who maybe non verbal will use an assistive communication device to tell their story or to choose what they want their picture to say.

This can all be modified for special need students by utilizing communication devices, assistive technology as well as other switches.

Once the story is told, each student will be given the opportunity to read the story within the scrapbook to other students/teachers. This gives each student the opportunity to express their ideas as well as being able to verbal tell a story about the pictures.