Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Using Temple Run app as a stimulus for story writing.



In the last week, pupils have been looking at story structures and creative writing.  As a child myself, I struggled to think of ideas for my own creative writing. After looking at different techniques to allow children to be both engaged in their writing activities and develop their own distinct style (I found this technique on David Andrew's blog, thanks) I have decided to again look at gaming to inspire children to write creatively.

We looked at one of our favourites, Temple Run 2.  The pupils got a 5 minute blast on the app, then looked at writing techniques, story structure and descriptive language.  After developing a first draft, the children then used the Book Creator app to write their story, as we will be creating an iBook collection of Key Stage 2 stories.

As an extension of learning I have decided to set a homework below. Children will again use the Temple Run app as a stimulus to post an exciting opening paragraph.  Their success criteria is below.  Have a look at the comments section for their first drafts.

  • Start with an opening sentence with a 'shock' to catch the reader's attention.
  • Describe the characters.
  • Describe the settings.
  • WOW words.
  • Mention the character's feelings.
  • CORRECT PUNCTUATION - Proper nouns begin with capital letters. Names begin with capital letters.
  • Read over your work to see if it makes sense.

17 comments:

  1. "Guy Dangerous you on a important mission to grab the expensive Indol are you up for it?" said boss Steven "yes sir yes" said Guy Dangerous "do we need a plan?" "no you lady!" said Steven "get a good sleep we start at 6:00 wish you hope" "really?" "NO" "ok" "NOW GO TO SLEEP!". The next day he's got into his rocket filled jet and flew like a cheetah.

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  2. BOOM came Guy Dangerous running out of the deep dark spooky cave and the fresh eating monkey came running behind Guy Dangerous. Guy dangerous sees a zip line ahead from him oh no he shouted. When he got past the zip line he was just running along untill he sees a stream in front of so he went sliding down the stream he had to duck bacause he saw a tree log that he nealry got hit by.

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  3. Bang! Guy Dangerous sprinted through the wooden barrier and the giant flesh eating monkey woke up and saw that the cursed idol was away.So he jumped up and ran like Usain Bolt after Guy Dangrous. The monkey was catching up with Guy so he had to run even faster and he did, he ran as fast as he ever had before. Then he heard a river so he went to it and slide down it and then jumped out.

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  4. Hi I'm Karma Lee and im going to tell you how I stole the monkey idol. First It was a normal day for me watching T.V. when suddenly I got a phone call from my sister Scarlett saying that she broke her ankle. First I wonderd how did she break her ankle working as an librarian but then she owned up and said that she didn't work as an librarian she actull worked as a spy. I said to myself how am I going to be a spy but then I said I will do it my sister thanked me and said that guy dangerous would pick me up at 5:10am.

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  5. Guy Dangerous and the missing Diamond


    Guy Dangerous was sitting down seing if there was anymore missions.Just then he got a phone call, it was from Scarlett Fox.At that time also he saw another mission he would take.He dashed to the phone as quick as lightning."OH NO THATS REALLY BAD" Guy Dangerous yelled," I am coming to solve that mission.The mission was to take a rare diamond away from one of the most dangerous monkeys.The other mission that Gut Dangerous saw was not as important it was only fixing a shop that got a little damaged.Guy Dangerous ran out out grabbing everything he needs sush as a water bottle and a jacket.He zoomed out the door.

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  6. "Boom" Scarlett Fox fell out of the Temple . She had stolen the rare diamond idol. " So Shiny an Sparkly" she said as her eyes tinkeld. She didn't know that a hideous monkey beast was following her."help me " she yelled. She ran as fast as she could . Minute by minute the monkey got closer and tried two grab her." Ahhhhh " she shouted the monster was so close that he was in her shadow. She could hardly think of a way to escape because of the monkeys disturbing breathing.she came across a long skinny rope with golden coins she felt brave and collected them and put them in her pockets. The rope was snapping and braking . She was to heavy and her pocket were exploding with coins.......

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  7. BANG Scarleet Fox bursts though the door with the sparkling jewel in her hand and the fleash eating moster after her. Then she saw a long rope and leaped for it, then laned in the forest with the monster still behind her then she saw a river and went for it the moster swinging from the trees around the river then she was about to fallow the river around the side then she slid on to the ground and hid behind a tree but the monster still swinging away and away on the trees so when the monster went miles away she contacted her team, she got away on a hellicopter with a happy smlie.

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  8. BOOM!Guy Dangerous flew through the cave running as fast as he could trying to escape the flesh eating monkey.Guy Dangerous was holding the cursed idol in his hands it was a smooth gold colour it looked like it was carved out.Guy Dangerous hung onto the rope trying to escape flesh eating monkey but why did it want the cursed idol for?

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  9. BOOM as guy dangerous broke the door down as the flesh eating monkey on his tail he was so scared he did not even have a hope in the world to look be hind him. As he was turning left right he finally found light he ran as fast as his feet could take him he got out and he did not see the monster...

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  10. DOOM Guy dangerogos goes though the door with the magic jewel in his hand then a person eating monster came out behind him, then he saw a rope and jumped onto the rope and swinged across the rope to a big river and escaped the people eating monster.

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  11. BANG! Scarlett Fox ran out of a scary dark cave . No one had seem her running for her life. When Scarlett ran out of the cave she seem a vicious monkey running behind her. The vicious monkey ran after her no matter what . The vicious monkey kept on running after her until she had stopped running but she had not stopped running

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  12. "BOOM" Scarlet Fox bursted out of the deep ,dark and terrifying temple with the cursed idol in her bag. As she was running she glanced behind her and seen that the flesh eating monkey had followed her out of the temple and was chasing after her .She ran as fast as she could but the flesh eating monkey was catching up suddenly she came to a broken part of the path and it was to big to jump and with the flesh eating monkey catching up what will she do...

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  13. Hi I'm Scarlett fox. On Wednesday I was suppose to be teaching history to fith grade but I had other plans. i had been teaching the children about the rare and extremely cursed teribithian idol, and for the first time they couldn't wait to get homework ,and it wasn't gust the children that loved learning about it. I have wanted to tell the story of my adventure to find the idol in the teribithian Islands so this is my story.

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  14. BOOM! Guy Dangerous ran rapidly through the cave moving as fast as he could. Trying to escape the flesh eating monkey. He was holding the rare cursed idol in his hands. He hung onto the rope trying to escape the flesh eating monkey. Why did Guy Dangerous want the cursed idol?

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  15. CRASH! Scarlett Fox ran out of the ancient mysterious temple clutching the glowing cursed idol to her chest. She was being chased by a giant flesh eating monkey. She was very scared and she had just been phoned by her brother and that she had to steal the idol but her brother didn't know about the giant monkey and neither did Scarlett so she resorted to run from the giant monkey...

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  16. "CRASH" Scarlett Fox bursts through the temple doors hoping to find a majestic 1000 year old idol within finger distance but .. She relized the idol was MILES away and she was going to have to jump and dodge over obstacles to reach it. This was going to be "easy " for Scarlett who is an iternational antique thief , this was a okay until suddenly Scarlett heard a loud ROAR come from the end of the cave then a huge black shadow appeared . Scarlett stoped , Grabbed the idol and ran. When she had a chance Scarlett looked around to see a gigantic Monkey was right on her tail and Scarlett got scared because she had a huge chance of being eaten alive. "OH NO " Scarlett shouted she had fallen over a rock more of a bolder in fact ! Looking back the monkey was very close and Scarlett jumped up and ran on before she got caught. Scarlett was getting quite tired and was hoping to see the helicopter to take her home anytime ! But what will happen, will she survive or will the monkey get its dinner tonight...

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  17. In a 1000 year old temple a rare idol was discovered by an explorer called Guy Dangerous. When he was leaving the temple with the idol he fell and crashed through the door which made an almighty racket. As he was getting back on his feet he heard a weird noise. When he looked over his shoulder he heard a mighty ROAR.The sound came from a creature known by the name the 'flesh eating monkey'. Guy was frozen by fear and didn't know what to do. Should he hide or run???

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