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Creating Incredible Games that Match Story Content

If You Give a Pig a Plot: Following the similar structure of
Pancake other circular stories by this author, a
pig is given a pancake leading to a chain
Si le das un panqueque a of consequences. Comical exploration
una cerdita concept, “If you give an inch, they’ll
take a mile.”

Why we like it: Similar to its
predecessors, but with a female

protagonist, it’s great for teaching cause
and effect, predictions, and sequencing
in a humorous light.

Where the Wild Things Plot: A little boy imagines himself
Are traveling to a far away place, where he
makes unlikely friends and learns to
Donde viven los appreciate what he has at home when
monstruos he returns.

Why we like it: Great story for inspiring
children’s imaginations, wonderful book
for working on consonant clusters.

Why Mosquitos Buzz in Plot: A mosquito tells a lie to an iguana
People’s Ears and sets off a series of events. It is a
‘fable-like’ story.
Porque zumban los
mosquitos en los oidos Why we like it: It teaches the value of
telling the truth, and is great for
visualizing, describing, and sequencing.
It provides a context to learn about
different animals, cause and effect, and

has beautiful illustrations.

The Rainbow Fish Plot: A proud fish learns a lesson about
valuing inner beauty and friendship.
El pez arco iris
Why we like it: Lovely illustrations,
fairly predictable story that is good for
vocabulary building, semantic mapping,
and teaching predictions and
inferencing. Great story for working on
social/pragmatic skills (friendship

building/initiating play).

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