| Body | Playing a Story
This activity is designed to develop literacy skills in intermediate learners through the use of Safari Tales and its ability to inspire students to play with language. In completing this activity, the learners will augment the digital storybooks that they create in gameplay with additional details. After completing that phase of work, learners will work with a peer to think critically about their respective abilities to explain situations and characters with detail.
Objectives
Learners will be able to:
- create a story about a character.
- write a descriptive narrative using adjectives and other supporting details.
- format and write a short story.
Modes: Interpretive reading, Presentational Writing, Interpersonal speaking
Resources: Intermediate Activity 1 Writing Template, Intermediate Activity 1 Peer Review Handout, Safari Tales app
Procedure:
- Ask learners to brainstorm three activities an animal might do in a safari by using the Intermediate Activity 1 Writing Template. Learners will also make predictions about an animal character from Safari Tales. They will document these predictions in first person as if they were an animal.
- Allow learners to play Safari Tales for 15-20 minutes (enough time to play one quest and create one story in the game). As they play, learners will write down three descriptive words about their animal and three things it might do tomorrow on the Intermediate Activity 1 Writing Template.
- Next, ask learners to continue working on the Intermediate Activity 1 Writing Template by expanding their own story to include a description of and predictions about their in-game characters.
- Finally, instruct learners to get into pairs to engage in peer review. Learners will use the Intermediate Activity 1 Peer Review Handout to guide their discussion and to provide feedback..
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