Second Graders Create "Choose Your Own Adventure!" 

Mrs. Dammann’s second graders found out how a unit on word choice and fictional stories could be so much more than imagined!  They began by mapping out their stories, writing detailed sentences focusing on word choice, creating the setting for a story, and turned it into something amazing! From trips to Mars, Paris, the ocean, and even a ride on a unicorn, the students found that their fictional stories could take them anywhere they wanted to go. The boys and girls used green screen technology to put themselves into their adventures and give readers the opportunity to choose which character they would like to take them on the journey! Not only do they get to choose a character, but the reader gets to decide how they would like the story to end. With Keynote slideshows, the students were able to link their pages to jump from one part of the story to another based on what the reader selects. The “instant alpha” feature in Keynote allows students to erase the background and drop themselves in front of the setting they’ve created. Stickers were used to add extra features or items to the stories. Even the most reluctant writers had no problem getting into these stories!