How can games for sequencing a story be beneficial in education?

Well, games for sequencing a story can be a great educational tool. Firstly, they boost imagination. Take 'Rory's Story Cubes' for instance. Students roll the cubes and see random images, then they have to use their imagination to create a story around those images. This helps in developing their creative thinking. Secondly, they improve comprehension skills. By sequencing the story in games like 'Tell - Tale', students learn to understand the flow of a story. They get to know how one event leads to another. Also, it helps in oral communication skills as students have to tell the story they've sequenced, which is great for language development in the classroom.

These games are beneficial as they engage students in an interactive way. When using 'Story Cubes', students have to look at the pictures and figure out how to form a coherent story. This improves their critical thinking skills. They also learn vocabulary as they try to describe the pictures and the story. In 'Mad Libs', students learn about different parts of speech while sequencing the story. It makes learning grammar and language more fun and memorable. Moreover, it helps students with sequencing skills in general, which are useful not only in language arts but also in other subjects like history when they need to sequence events.