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Language Arts Idea #2
Story Starters
Objective:
The students will write stories using story starters.
Rationale:
The fruits and vegetables in "5 A Day Adventures" are
depicted as characters, each with a unique personality. This
activity gives students a chance to explore these fruits and
vegetables and write creatively about them.
Each story starter uses a fruit or vegetable character from
"5 A Day Adventures". "5 A Day Adventures" provides a great
deal of information about each character. Have children
explore the adventures to learn all they can about their
favorite fruit or vegetable.
Materials:
Story Starters
Introduction:
Work together as a class to write a creative story about one
of the characters.
Example: Gretta Grapefruit was proud to be a citrus fruit
and wanted everyone to know about all the citrus
fruits, so she decided to spread the word.
Use "5 A Day Adventures" to learn about grapefruit.
Group/Individual Activity:
Have each student choose a story starter and write stories
that begin with the story starter sentence. Let students
refer to the Fruits and Vegetables Speak Up section of "5 A
Day Adventures" to get a feel for their character's
personality.
Related Activities:
* Have students act out their stories!
* Give students creative and unusual titles from which to
write stories.
* Use partial sentences as story starters.
* Use story endings for which students must write a beginning
and middle.
* Feature winning stories in the school cafeteria
Story Starters
Anthony Apple was pleased to be one of the most popular fruits in
America. He had a lot to be proud of and decided to write his own
story because he wanted everyone to know some other neat things
about apples.
Bobby Banana was proud of the tropical paradise he called home,
and was excited when the Librarian asked him to give a talk on
"Where Bananas Come From."
Barney Broccoli had a story to tell, and it was the story of why
Broccoli was one of the Super Vegetables. His story went something
like this.
Annie and Arthur Asparagus wanted everyone to know that they are
the stems of plants, so they decided to tell the kids their story.
Greg and Gary Green Beans were getting ready to tell the kids the
difference between bush beans and pole beans.
Christopher Cantaloupe was proud and wanted everyone to know his
story.
Calvin Carrot wanted everyone to know why his bright orange color
made him such an important vegetable. He decided to tell the kids
the good news about carrots.
Courtney Cauliflower wanted the kids to know how cauliflower was
grown, so she started her story.
Cornelius Corn wanted the kids to know some new ways to eat corn,
so he decided to...
Gretta Grapefruit was proud to be a citrus fruit and wanted
everyone to know about all the citrus fruits, so she decided to
spread the word.
Lucy Iceberg Lettuce was proud to be such a popular vegetable,
that she decided to tell the kids how they could make great
salads.
Sam Celery wanted the kids to know all the ways celery could be
used, so he wrote a story.
Chester and Chelsea Cherry wanted the kids to know how they were
grown and how to pick the best tasting cherries at the market, so
they started by...
Gus Grapes wanted the kids to know how grapes are made into
raisins, so he started by...
Kevin Kiwi wanted more kids to enjoy fitting kiwi into their "5 a
Day", so he decided to tell them why he was such a good choice.
Danny Dates was proud to be the "candy that grows on trees", but
the kids didn't seem to know much about dates, so he decided to
fix that.
5 A Day Adventures: Language Arts Idea # 2