OK Story Cards
Description
Designed for limitless fun in communicative classrooms!
OK Story Cards are crafted to enhance language learning. They portray various everyday situations, as well as unconventional, humorous, or absurd scenarios featuring our three characters. The cards employ 80 vivid images to teach the essential vocabulary needed for everyday communication, including nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
Learners can work through the cards in stages. Initially, they focus on naming and describing individual objects and actions. Subsequently, they create stories and narrate dialogues for the characters.
OK - The Dynamic Trio: Will their story unfold as a drama or a comedy? Rest assured; it will be anything but dull! Are your students prepared to dive into the narrative? The cards feature a range of unique and unpredictable scenarios populated with numerous details to captivate students’ attention throughout the lesson.
We are confident that your students will find these cards to be a delightful addition to their learning journey. Compact yet versatile, they seamlessly integrate into your teaching toolkit.
65 Card Games
Games to enhance and expand vocabulary: The objective of these games is to activate the group’s passive vocabulary. They encourage students to retrieve the words they studied in recent lessons and integrate them into various activities. Participants use individual words from cards without forming complete sentences with them yet. The games progress in difficulty, providing a structured approach to the mastery of vocabulary.
Games to practice grammatical structure: OK cards will help you add a fun, creative element to grammar instruction. These multipurpose games are designed for practicing various grammatical language structures. The activities are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. Due to some activities’ narrow grammatical focus, they resemble exercises rather than games.
Interactive speaking and storytelling games: These games provide students with a platform to unleash their linguistic creativity by crafting action-packed stories and unpredictable dialogues. Combining language skills, vocabulary knowledge, and grammar, these games foster fluid communication where students rapidly exchange lines of dialogues and construct compelling narratives.
Activities to practice writing: These games are dedicated to enhancing students’ writing skills through engaging and structured exercises. These writing tasks build upon the vocabulary and grammatical structures learned earlier, encouraging students to apply their knowledge in written form.
Energizer movement games: The aim of these brief warm-up activities, ranging from 5 to 15 minutes, is to introduce energy, movement, and fun into the lesson. Designed for simplicity, these games ensure that every student participates, feels inspired, and becomes motivated for future tasks. They are ideal for the beginning of a lesson and organized in order of increasing difficulty. Some games require little to no prior language learning, while others require knowledge of some basic vocabulary.
Each Card Features:
- 3 Main Characters to encourage dialogue and roleplay
- Secondary Characters to help create an engaging story
- Unique Scene Locations to develop place-related vocabulary
- Variety of Emotions to practice adjective usage
- 3 or More Actions to master verb usage
- At Least 7 Different Objects to expand noun knowledge
Target Age Range: 6 & Up
Great For Developing:
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- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Speaking
- Writing Skills
Additional Photos
What's Included
- 80 Story Cards
- 20 Blank Cards (used in certain games)
- 1 Informational Card to access
- All contained in a convenient box
Target Audience
Author
OK Story Cards Created By:
- Alexei Razin, M. Ed.
- Evgeny Dengub, PhD
Customer Reviews
"OK Story Cards have quickly become one of my go-to tools in the classroom! What I love most is how adaptable they are. If I need a quick icebreaker, I can just grab a few cards, and in 5-10 minutes, the whole class is chatting, making up stories, or discussing the scenes. It’s a great way to get everyone engaged right from the start of the lesson. But they’re just as useful for longer activities. I’ve used the cards to build entire lessons around writing prompts or storytelling, and they work great across different levels. My beginners can focus on basic descriptions, while more advanced students dive into creating full narratives or even debating the situations shown on the cards. It’s so easy to scale the difficulty based on who I’m teaching. Whether it’s for a quick warm-up or a deeper, more structured exercise, OK Story Cards fit right in. The best part is that they keep my students talking and thinking creatively!" – D.K.
"OK Story Cards are an invaluable resource for any educator or language enthusiast. This set includes 80 beautifully hand-illustrated cards and 20 blank ones, perfect for fostering storytelling, vocabulary development, and interactive communication. With activities that range from beginner-friendly to advanced-level, these cards align well with proficiency guidelines such as ACTFL's. The durability and compact design make them a practical tool for classrooms, workshops, and home learning. They are suitable for children, teenagers and adults. I have used them for conversation building and for ice-breaking activities. Whether you're engaging a small group or a diverse classroom, OK Story Cards offer a versatile, fun, and engaging learning experience. Highly recommended!" – I.D.
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