Vuyo loves playing soccer and is excited for his granny to visit while his parents are away. At the bus stop, he sees a newspaper advertising a writing competition about grandparents and a prize of R1000. He is unsure he can write well enough to enter. The article also mentions a group of grandmothers in Tzaneen who play soccer, giving Vuyo an idea for his entry. The presentation provides tips on adding a story to PowerPoint, including creating a slide for each paragraph and adding illustrations to blank slides in between. Various options for illustrations are discussed, such as doing them yourself, finding clipart or tracing pictures. African Storybook projects require stories to fit one of several reading levels based on

1. Add your story to
PowerPoint and
illustrate it
Fiona Beal

2. Outcomes for this presentation
• Add an already written story to
PowerPoint (or similar)
• Find out about different ways of
illustrating stories

3. My story
What if question: What if a granny could play soccer with her grandson? (got the
idea from a newspaper article about the Soccer Grannies of Tzaneen)
Story structure
Beginning: Vuyo loves soccer. His granny is coming to look after him while his
parents are away. He doesn’t do well at school.
Middle: At the bus top he sees a newspaper article that mentions his granny and
soccer. He also sees a writing competition mentioned.
Problem introduced: Granny can’t afford the trip to the USA to play soccer
The class writes for the writing competition. The class teases him because he can’t
write very well. He wants to win the money.
Resolve 1: Someone else wins
End: At the bus stop saying goodbye to Granny.
Resolve 2:Miss Pewa passes in her car, stops and gives him a letter. Previous
winner has been disqualified – Vuyo is the new winner.
Climax: Gives his portion of the monetary prize to Granny for the USA.

4. Typed out in Word
Vuyo’s Soccer Granny
by Fiona Beal
Vuyo loves playing soccer. You will always find him kicking his soccer ball around somewhere. He
kicks it on the way to school. He kicks it on the way home. Whenever Voyo got home from school
he rushed through his homework and went outside to play soccer in the street with his friends.
When he comes in he puts on the TV and guess what he watches? Soccer games of course. His
mother often says, “Vuyo, where does this love of soccer come from? Nobody in our family plays
soccer. I wish you were as interested in your school work as you are in soccer”
Vuyo is waiting at the busy bus stop. He is very excited because his granny is coming to stay while
his parents are away visiting some relatives. His granny is from Tzaneen. While he is at the bustop
he sees a newspaper lying on the seat at the bustop. He looks through it.
“Oh, a writing competition. The topic is “Let me introduce you to my granny”. You can win R1000
for yourself, R1000 for your granny and R1000 for your school.” No, I don’t like writing. I can’t
write. I hardly know my granny – I would not know how to write about her.
Then he spotted something interesting on the Sports page. It was a headline about soccer.
Grannies in Tzaneen show the soccer spirit. He started to read. He read and he read. It was such
an interesting article. Listen to what he read.

5. 1. Adding a story to PowerPoint
• Open PowerPoint
• Have a title page and an end page
• Create as many slides as you have
paragraphs for the writing.
• Add the writing.
• Add one blank slide after each paragraph
– for the illustrations.

6. Home
New slide

7. Choose this one

8. Choose as many
slides as you have
paragraphs

9. One slide per paragraph
plus a title page and an
end page. (6 – 16
‘chunks’)

10. Delete these top bits. Click on
the corner, then hold the right
side of the mouse and choose
delete

11. Choose the blank one for the
illustration pages

12. Like this!

13. Now to demonstrate

14. 2. Illustrating your story

15. A. Artistically - yourself
Example video: How to Illustrate for a Children's Book
http://www.ehow.com/video_2372052_illustrate-children_s-book.html

16. You could even use online art
tools to do this
e.g. Online Drawing Tools for Illustrating Children's Books
http://www.ehow.com/list_6548685_online-tools-
illustrating-children_s-books.html

17. Otherwise you could ask a
friend or one of the students in
your class to illustrate for you!

18. B. An illustration CD at school?
Example CD: Story Maker 2
Limited. No soccer field backround, no ball!

20. C. Microsoft clipart
Limited. No variety using the same character

21. D. Public Domain clipart
http://www.pdclipart.org/thumbnails.php?album=136

22. This is a great collection of back and white
drawings
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8fZBPc/etc.usf.edu/clipart/

23. If you use Creative Commons pictures
you will need to give attribution
Example: http://elk-grade6-stories.wikispaces.com/Eagles

24. E. Tracing pictures
http://www.ehow.com/video_4955159_art-ideas-inspiration-tracing-layering.html

25. An example of tracing pictures and then
painting them
http://www.wikihow.com/Illustrate-a-Children's-Book

26. F. Make collage type pictures
http://www.ehow.com/video_4955147_art-ideas-inspiration-illustrating-plot.html

27. Example from a Grade 2 class
http://bookstoafrica.edublogs.org/2013/04/12/a-little-learning-about-lions/#comment-91
http://www.scribd.com/doc/135592757/Lions

28. It looks rather nice in a book
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129378112/Leopard-by-Ms-Valenta-s

29. G. What about stick figures?

30. 3. What does the African
Storybook project require in
terms of reading levels?

31. Level Criteria
Level A
Just beginning
Children are able to relate the story as though they are reading;
One word or phrase or simple sentence per page;
Picture clues clearly support the text.
Level B More than one simple sentence per page;
Vocabulary is more challenging;
Pictures support the general message of the text.
Level C Longer sentences and longer text;
More complex vocabulary;
Artwork sometimes has additional meaning not strictly related to the written text;
Not all the text has visual clues.
Level D There is a change to more ‘adult’ text in terms of content and style.
Longer text usually in paragraphs with connected ideas;
Challenging vocabulary;
Not all pages have pictures.
Read aloud Long text, in paragraphs with connected ideas, possibly even short chapters;
Some supporting pictures;
All other levels can be read aloud.
Reading level requirements

32. The end – thank you!