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'What's The Story?' Game

Added: 23 May 2017 Contributor: Ann Moran Resource type: Game / Guide/notes / Lesson Plan / Tool / Primary Source

A game for two teams to encourage oral language discussion and thinking around choice of words.

How it maps to the curriculum

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English

Strand: Oral Language

Strand unit: Communicating

Suggestions for use: Use this picture card team game to prompt oral language discussion within small groups or as a whole class activity. Each team's 'caller' has 20 seconds to describe the famous storybook on as many cards as possible without saying the name of the storybook on the card or any of the three forbidden words!

Strand: Oral Language

Strand unit: Competence and Confidence in Using Language

Suggestions for use: Use this picture card team game to prompt oral language discussion within small groups or as a whole class activity. Each team's 'caller' has 20 seconds to describe the famous storybook on as many cards as possible without saying the name of the storybook on the card or any of the three forbidden words!

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  • Asset type: Document
  • Language: English
  • Rights: Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike Creative Commons
  • Cost: No
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