- Create games to go in your story sack – games that relate to the story. (See list
of web sites at the end of this section.)
- Memory games
- Matching games
- Card or board games
- Rhyming games
- Number games
- Singing, clapping or dancing games
- Alphabet games
- Guessing games
- Visual discrimination games
- Make a prompt card for parents to show them how to play the games and any
special information about how to use the story sack.
- Make a checklist of everything that is in your story sack, so you can easily
check to see if anything is missing.
- When your story sacks are complete, share them with the other group
members. Encourage people to participate in acting out the story.
- You could invite your own children to a ‘Story Sacks Party’ one afternoon and
have fun reading and acting out the story with them.
- Ask the Nunavut Literacy Council to give you information about training
parents to use story sacks. Your literacy group could create a system for
lending out the story sacks to families in the community. You could organize
and deliver a training session for parents.
- If you do lend out your story sacks, you must check them regularly to see that
all the pieces are there and in good shape. Replace or repair items as needed.
You need to have a system to keep the story sacks in top condition so families
will always enjoy them to the fullest.
- If your group is not able to act as a story sack lending library, find out if
another group is interested: the library, family resource center, wellness centre
or the school.
- The literacy group members could write journal entries throughout the project.
Record the progress of your work. What are your jobs within the group? What
are your thoughts and feelings about working on the story sacks project?