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Story in a Can!

March 2, 2015

Many of my poor language disordered students have such difficulty telling stories.  I’m sure that’s no surprise to you.  Narrative skills are not usually the strong suit of someone with language learning problems.  They often lack structure, vocabulary, and understanding of overall language.  Needless to say, we work a lot with stories and books in our speech room.

My newest product targets just that – narratives.  It’s a fun way to get kids excited about telling stories.  In fact, my little ones actually ask for the story cans!  (I love it when they don’t realize they’re learning something while playing).

Disclaimer: This post contains amazon-affiliate links.
 

Now, this product involves a little bit of craftiness on your part to set everything up.  Don’t worry, it’s nothing complicated.  You can make it as cutesy or as easy as you’d like.

You’ll need about 6 small cans or containers, modge podge or glue, and scrapbook paper.

You can just print the labels and affix them onto any small container if you don’t have time to mess with making it cutesy.  OR you can decorate the cans with scrapbook paper, stickers, or even have the students help you!  I used scrapbook paper and printed the labels onto full sheet sticker/label paper.  This made it easy to attach.
This download also contains sheets to make your own story chips to place inside the cans.  I print these on full sheet label paper as well, so that I don’t have to bother with sticky glue.
Just cut out the circles (or use a 1.5″ punch) and attach to poker chips.  I used these:
They turned out super cute.  🙂  I put the different types of pictures onto different color chips to make it easier to separate.
There are pictures that target characters, setting, kick-off/problem, feelings, attempts/events, and extras/open-ended.
It also includes story maps, graphic organizers, and illustrating/writing worksheets to use with the cans and chips.
We use Braidy the StoryBraid in our speech room.  I LOVE Story Grammar Marker.  Find out more about it here.  Some of the worksheets and maps contain SGM terminology as options, since that’s what we use.  There are blank versions as well for those of you who don’t.

There are lots of ways you could use these story cans.  I’d encourage you to get creative and find what works best for your kids!  There are several ideas for use in the download as well.  Find it at my TPT store my clicking HERE!

What do you think??  Could your kids use this in your speech rooms?

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  1. annied says

    March 5, 2015 at 12:08 am

    I absolutely love this idea and will be purchasing this product! It application for use with Story Grammar Marker as well!

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  2. annied says

    March 5, 2015 at 12:09 am

    Oh, if I had finished reading before I got all excited I would have seen that you mentioned SGM! Duhhhh!

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  3. annied says

    March 5, 2015 at 12:13 am

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  4. Brittany says

    September 4, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    Am I missing it? Is there a link to go purchase the download? I would love to make and use this with my kiddos!

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    • lauren says

      October 17, 2015 at 1:58 am

      I added a link!! Sorry about that!

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