CYOA

=Choose Your Own Adventure Information and Resources=

Let's explore resources related to interactive adventure stories. Keep in mind that CYOAs have been around for almost thirty years. The [|Choose Your Own Adventure] book series have been around for over twenty years.

General Information about Choose Your Own Adventures
[|Gamebook's Choose Your Own Adventure] - this page contains a master list of titles and information [|Wikipedia Entry] - this page highlights the history of the series and links. Also check out the [|master list] of books.

Wikis
Many people are using the wiki format to create interactive adventures. Explore a few examples: [|Choose Your Own Adventure] - this is a great place to add to a story including kid stories, manga stories and other stories. World Culture 7th Hour, World Culture 8th Hour - check out the student longitude and latitude problems and answers 1773 CYOA - great example of a historical fiction interactive adventure Choose Your Own Adventure Wikispace - a starter project you can join Grade5MA - most of the children in the class have done a choose your own adventure. Choose a list and name.

Explore other examples with a [|search] for Choose Your Own Adventure in wikispaces.

Interactive Adventures
There are many websites that post interactive adventure stories. Here are a few examples: [|Binary Fiction] - mixed fiction topic [|Dunnbar Bound] - tall ship adventure [|Planet 5th Interactive Stories] - Mr. Vincent's Fifth Grade interactive stories [|Redwall] - based on the Redwall books (watch for ads) [|The Riptide Adventure] - riptide safety adventure

Teacher Materials
Teachers can find lots of lesson ideas for integrating CYOA stories into reading and writing activities. Try some of the following resources: Choose Your Own Wiki Adventure - watch a slide show about one teacher's experiences with wikis in the classroom. [|Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience] - a lesson for grades 6-8 from ReadWriteThink
 * [|Adventure Story Graphic Organizer] - this PDF document provides a nice graphic organizer for building a CYOA.
 * [|Choose Your own Adventure in HyperText] - this PDF file contains basic guidelines for CYOA writing activities
 * [|Reflective Journal Assessment] - this PDF file contains guiding questions
 * [|Student-Design Rubric for CYOA assignments] - this PDF file contains a rubric.