Story Map/Story Grammar Activity can be used in conjunction with LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE
APPROACH and/or graphic organizers as a Beginning-Intermediate-Advanced Writing Activity
Purpose: Semantic Development and Syntactic Development
Focus: Identify a common organizational pattern or “grammar” of a reading text
ELDC (Continuum) Level(s): High Intermediate 3, Proficient 1, Proficient 2, Proficient 3
Procedure: Introduce story grammars by using the Language Experience Approach. (See
Beginning- Writing Activities Language Experience Story). The second time, have each group
prepare one. Once groups have mastered story grammars, individuals can prepare their own,
but include incentives for the group to help individual members. For example, you might want
to give a team a point for each member who receives a grade of B or higher.