Literacy lapbook, continuing a story

This lapbook was made by a friend’s son. It is based on a story writing activity.

In the course of general literacy work you often come across “finish the story”, or “what happened next” tasks. This lapbook was made by extending just such a task. In this case there was a series of pictures, showing the story so far, and the task was to write an ending.

 

The flaps in the central section above show the pictures the story began with. The flaps on either side have titles such as “author”, “illustrated by”, “editor”, “theme”. These were used to encourage the child who made the lapbook to think of himself as a book author. His task was not only to complete a story, but to write a book. This is great for motivation, and gives an otherwise routine piece of written work much more interest.

This is the piece of writing, the centre piece of the lapbook. As the mum whose son made this said, without the lapbook that piece of lined paper would just get filed away unnoticed somewhere! Yes, this is true of work written by my sons!

On the other side of the extension for the writing, we have the illustrations.

A great way to encourage creative writing.