Story Spinner

This Story Spinner is a great activity to do with your  students. It helps with oral language, listening, telling and creating stories. It is perfect to do when you have a few minutes left at the end of your lesson or in a transition time.

Print the story spinner (on card if possible), laminate it and attach a spinner (or use with pencil and paper clip).

• tell your students they will use the spinner to help tell a story.
• spin the spinner, and start the story for your students using the picture it lands on - e.g. The brown horse was walking down to the pond. 
• A student then takes a turn, and spins the spinner, using the picture it lands on to add to the story. The sun was very hot and so the horse was very thirsty.
• encourage lots of ideas and model how to edit and link ideas as necessary 
• keep the oral story telling short and engaging - keep the momentum and fun going so students become motivated to tell stories

Another good challenge is to ask your students the following day, to recall the story that was told! 

This activity is also great using spinners that contain pictures from familiar fairy tales - be sure to keep a look out in my TpT store - I think I will make some :)

Find this spinner in Google Drive: Sample Story Spinner

2021 Update

We now have a full pack of Story Spinners. Find them in our store: