Online Story Maps

This year has been off to a CrAzY start. With missing 2 weeks for Hurricane Harvey, it's been an interesting start. This year, our ELA team is trying to read more of the short Bluebonnet Books with the students. This helps them to get their AR Points toward their 1st 9 Weeks goal, as well as get credit toward their Bluebonnet goal.

We have now read 3 Bluebonnet Books and students are completing their 3rd Story Map. In my class, we did our first Story Map as a class with sticky notes. I created a poster with the different Story Map components for a fiction story. The second one was done with their table group on a shared page.

The third one was done using a Google Doc Template. Since the third story we read was a biography, I had to adapt the Story Map.

I set up an assignment in Google Classroom and had it set up the document to "Make a Copy for Each Student". This way, students were able to open the assignment and begin working in the Story Map. I also linked a video of the story being read aloud on YouTube so it could be referred back to, if needed.

Here are a couple of my student responses: