Learning Through Games: Tell Tale and Rory's Story Cubes

Summary: These two games challenge players to create a story using a limited set of picture prompts.

Number of Players: 1 or more

Recommended Age: 5+ for Tell Tale, 8+ for Rory's Story Cubes

Skills Addressed:

• Sequence of events
• Storytelling
• Listening
• Memory

Link to Learning:

• Ask questions (e.g. "Does that connect to the rest of the story?" "How can we solve the story's problem?").
• Tell the story without saying "and then."
• Try giving students time to plan their part of the story, then challenge them to tell a story without time to prepare.
• Focus on parts of speech, setting, exposition, or other parts of a narrative.
• Have children act out their story.
• Use pictures from a book the class has read.
• Use photos from a field trip.