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Students will use LEGO sets to expand their understanding of characters, props, settings, details, and scenes. Using LEGO to create storylines is a unique, creative learning tool that provides narrative experiences for students and empowers them to create stories in a natural way. It enhances speaking, listening, reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The LEGO story starter concept gets students involved right from the start, motivating them to use their imaginations to develop and create narratives, characters, and storylines. Storytelling and story-making, within a supportive structure, are powerful tools for improving literacy and encouraging students to confidently communicate stories, tales, and events from daily life. Sequencing events in a natural order promotes understanding and stimulates the imagination, encouraging creativity and helping students to come up with innovative new ideas. Students develop skills in English Language Arts and in creative and critical thinking as they work with hands-on storyboard, scene creation, objects and creatures, characterization, dialogue creation, exciting action and suspense storylines, predetermined openings and endings, timelines, and sequenced events. The learning scenarios—which can be set according to the educational level of the students—embrace diversity.

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Students will use LEGO sets to expand their understanding of characters, props, settings, details, and scenes. Using LEGO to create storylines is a unique, creative learning tool that provides narrative experiences for students and empowers them to create stories in a natural way. It enhances speaking, listening, reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The LEGO story starter concept gets students involved right from the start, motivating them to use their imaginations to develop and create narratives, characters, and storylines. Storytelling and story-making, within a supportive structure, are powerful tools for improving literacy and encouraging students to confidently communicate stories, tales, and events from daily life. Sequencing events in a natural order promotes understanding and stimulates the imagination, encouraging creativity and helping students to come up with innovative new ideas. Students develop skills in English Language Arts and in creative and critical thinking as they work with hands-on storyboard, scene creation, objects and creatures, characterization, dialogue creation, exciting action and suspense storylines, predetermined openings and endings, timelines, and sequenced events. The learning scenarios—which can be set according to the educational level of the students—embrace diversity.

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