1st grade classes participated in a week-long Li’l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. They had a lot of fun retelling Roald Dahl’s Magic Finger and using the central themes from the book to produce their own original stories. Here are students’ predictions from June of 2018:

Subject: Literacy, Writing
Target Skills: Imaginary story development, Text Innovation
NYS Standards: ELA W.1.3: Students will write narratives including at least 2 sequenced events and details regarding what happened, using signal words to signify event order, and provide closure; ELA RL.1.2: Students can retell stories and demonstrate understanding of central message or lesson; ELA RL.RL.1.7: Students can use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, settings, or events.
Goals: Students will understand the central themes in the book Magic Finger by Roald Dahl and be able to generate original stories that model after the same structure.
Outcome: Visual storyboards, story videos, written narrative