Stories on Board! Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales

By Dianne de Las Casas

This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.

Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool. In Stories on Board : Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales, award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas shows how it's done, allowing students to create their own board games with a unique method that integrates learning and fun.

With Stories on Board , students read and listen to popular folktales, analyze the structure of the story through story mapping, and then create a board game based on their analysis, engaging their aural, visual, and tactile skills. The lesson culminates in a Game Day in which the students play each other's games. The technique is a great way to introduce a unit on folktales, covering language arts and social studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591588626
• ISBN13: 9781591588627
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"