Let s Explore Series video. 1 is the first video in our language arts category and it has received some high marks by reviewers. The story ideas were meant to touch the child s senses about themselves, and how they interact with their surroundings. The video uses the television to motivate children s interest in story writing through the combination of themes involving emotions, history, science, careers, social interaction, and culture. The video opens with some basic guidelines for story construction.
Ideas are brainstormed, story-webbing is demonstrated, and outlining is modeled.
After this short lesson, viewers are presented with 17 story-starter ideas to get their creative juices flowing. 2 What If segments and 3 longer story ideas. These story topics are brought to the screen as animations, live action video, computer graphics, special effects, historic film sequences and photos and all are supported by music and sound effects. VOL.1 was written purposely to encourage children to think and to write, either on paper or on the computer. Younger children are given the choice to finish the stories by acting out the endings as a play, drawing pictures of the story, using puppets or masks, or by telling the story out loud.