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Creating Incredible Games that Match Story Content

Goal: English Spanish
Articulation Final consonants, vocalic /r/ /s/, /n/, /l/, /k/,

multisyllabic words

Syntax Past tense sentence structure (ex. -Past tense structure
planted, rained, pulled, etc..) (e.g. sembraron, creció,

halaron, etc.)-
Noun/verb agreement-
singular vs. plural

Conjunctions Compound sentences conjoined Compound sentences

with “but,” “still,” “so” conjoined with “pero,”
“aún,” “así que”

Semantics Vegetable and planting vocabulary, descriptive terms (colors,

size), seasons

Wh- questions What, who, where, when, why Qué, quién, dónde,
cuándo, por qué

Macrostructure- story elements, Sequencing- planting
structure, organization of a Story elements (characters, setting (time and place), problem,
narrative solution, initiating event, character intentions and desires,
moral)

Cumulative Story Games

Cumulative stories do just that, they
accumulate. A character moves through a story
and collects objects, eat things, or gathers

friends to support an outcome. In the Gigantic
Turnip, a farmer cannot pull a turnip out of the
ground. He slowly gathers his wife, one cow,

two pigs, three black cats… to all work
together. We made a board game of the
characters designed around Trivial Pursuit. A

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