What words remind you of a story? Does the word apple conjure something, a narrative perhaps, in your imagination? How about the word river, or devil, or queen? Of course there are words that inhabit the world of story for students. In this activity students broke into groups of 3 or 4, and armed with their own knowledge and dictionaries, began to create alphabetical lists of words that evoked a story for them. We will use them, and add to them, throughout the coming weeks to create stories and therefore language (think of these as the bricks, and all the connecting words, verbs and sentence structures we need to make them come alive as the mortar). Here's a photo of one groups efforts.
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