Writing
The
Planet
Wobble stories can be used as a starting point to help children
to become aware of plot, character and dialogue and to develop further
ideas.
Read the story with a group and stop at a point to collect
views about what might happen next. In Stan's Wait (Level 2
Set A) see if the children can guess where Stan might be going
- the only clues are in the pictures. Or continue the story
from the end of the book - what happened when Stan got to the
zoo. In The Race (Level 3 Set A) ask for predictions about
how the race might develop and who might win.
Use the stories to build up simple character profiles, looking
at characteristics, behaviour and appearance. Profiles could be
added to over a period as a number of books are read and they could
be presented as a wall display.
Look at alternative vocabulary such as the variety of verbs used
to enter the water in At Wobble Pool (Level 1 Set A). This idea
could be used to start work on overused words.
Follow
up the activities by making a class book or wall story.
The children could write their own versions of the story, comparing
their rewrites and binding their pages with printouts of the relevant
book pages.
Children could role-play parts
when reading aloud or develop their own interpretation of events,
for example what would
the child have said at the end of the wobble board race in
The Race (Level 3 Set A), if he or she had taken part.
The
story-writing grids are designed to enable children to write
simple stories based on the experiences and themes relevant
to the Planet Wobble story.
The support elements make them
relevant to children working on their own, with a stronger level
of support available in
Story 1.
Printed grids can be used as a framework for children
to write their stories away from the computer. All the grids
could be
given or the start grid only, to encourage the writer in
the story theme.
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