Y4 How do I plan a choose you own adventure story?

Choose you own adventure stories

1. Go to this site and try some of these stories:  http://www.asixthgradesomething.com/blog/choose-your-own-adventure-stories-from-ancient-egypt
2. Here are some examples about eSafety: https://www.digitalcompass.org/game/index.html
3. Here is a more advanced story for the Vikings  http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/397886ba81532427d6cf5396f685668f884374bd.swf

Setting up your story eBook

1. We are going to use a j2e5 page for each page of our story
2. Watch this video on how to create a story eBook in j2e5
3. Set up your j2e pages
4. I have shared the pictures with you – click the picture button then the “double blobby people” on the right
5. If you are making a choose your own adventure story, your link buttons will be choices instead of “next page” and “back a page”

Writing our own stories

Make up a simple story about the Egyptians or use my example:

1. Children visit a museum to study Egyptians
2. Find a secret room but are transported to ancient Egypt
3. Wander around Egypt discovering new things
4. Arrested as spies and taken to Pharaoh
5. Put in a prison cell
6. Find a secret door and appear back in the museum

Success steps

• Log in to j2e
• Create and save j2e file with several pages
• Insert images;
• Create links to other pages;
• Test links in view mode
• Start writing a simple story

Next steps

• Background pictures
• Finish story