A small group of five 1st graders have worked with me during their writing time to create a Google Form Choose Your Own Adventure.  This year, some 4th graders tried this with some social studies standards.  These 1st graders were free to write about anything that they wanted to.  We met during 4 one-hour sessions that looked something like this:

Session 1:  I showed a completed Google Form Choose Your Own Adventure as a model.  Then, I showed the first steps of creating the story which were to create a title, a beginning, and the first 2 choices the reader had to make.

Session 2:  We made new pages for each of our 2 choices and created 2 new choices for each of those choices.  We linked the choices from the beginning of the story to the correct pages.

Session 3:  We made 4 endings for each of our choices from the middle of the story.  We also made a “The End” page.  We linked each choice to its correct page.

Session 4:  Students used Google to correct spelling, added details to their stories, traded computers with a friend to test their story out, chose a theme for their form, and emailed their final form to me for this post.

These students needed a lot of assistance during this project, so I feel like this is something that would work better in small group settings with adult support for younger students.  I do think that the structure of these 4 sessions was very obtainable for these students and 1 adult.  These students now have a lot of expertise that they can now share with students in their class.  I’m not sure that they could fully create one of these on their own yet, but they definitely developed their skills in Google docs and forms.

You can read their stories here:

The Apple and the Chocolate Trainer by Kyusung

The Clouds by Katie

The Fairy by Adaline

Ninjago by Bo

This story was still in progress at the time of this post:

Tinya the Teacher Fairy by Carinne