Sweden ← Storyline Scotland

Swedish Class donate bake sale profits to Swaziland School

May

2013

The 7th grade, worked on a sustainable market using the Storyline approach. The students sold homemade/locally produced organic cakes to former pupils, parents and staff. Everything was sold and 7C decided to donate a portion of profits to a school in Swaziland. The money was used to buy rulers and pencils for use in their ...

Journal Article

Nov

2012

´Storyline: a task-based approach for the young learner classroom´ has been published by English Language Teaching Journal. The article is based on Sharon’s thesis in which she investigated the development of Swedish pupils’ communicative skills in English when they took part in Storyline, Our Sustainable Street. The photos shown here are taken from that study ...

Sanna Ranweg 1958 – 2011

Nov

2011

An appreciation It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Sanna Ranweg on 7th November 2011 in Lulea, Sweden. She was only 53 but had experienced some years of ill health before her death. As a talented teacher, tutor and educational designer Sanna was one of the Storyline Sweden Team and ...

Dr Sharon Ahlquist

Nov

2011

University of Kristianstad, Sweden It is with great pleasure that we announce that Sharon has been awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of Leicester with a study called: The impact of the Storyline approach on the young language learner classroom: a case study in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to identify in what ...

Storyline in Practice in Different Countries

Sep

2011

Comenius Partnership Project Kinnaird Primary School has just completed its first year of a two year Comenius-funded partnership project with Herrhagsskolan, a primary school in Karlstad, Sweden and the Oslo Mottessori School, Norway. All three schools use the Storyline methodology as a framework to support inter-disciplinary learning and were keen to further develop their skills ...

International Storyline Project

Jun

2011

Hathaway Brown, Cleveland, Ohio USA – Skutskar, Sweden For a period of five-months, classrooms in Cleveland, Ohio in the U.S.A. and Skutskar, Sweden shared a literature-based Storyline using the book Ronia the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. Mary Boutton, a teacher at Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio, and Michael Haglof, a teacher at Alvboda ...

The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

Apr

2011

During 10 weeks from January-April 2011, 4th-graders at Älvboda friskola in Skutskär, Sweden and 2nd-graders at Hudson Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin in the USA shared a literature-based Storyline using the book “The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane” of Kate DiCamillo. Edward Tulane

Storyline & Maths Courses

Oct

2010

In May and September 2010 two sucessful courses were run in Stockholm combining Storyline and mathematics. More information >

International Trio meet in Sweden

Sep

2010

Steve Bell During the year 2008 three young international student teachers benefited from the Erasmus scholarships to do their practical teaching studies in Halmstad, Sweden. They were Sule Tepetas , from the University of Ankara in Turkey, Lea Nakrst from Slovenia and Theresa Kuenzel from Germany. The three became firm friends and discovered a mutual ...

Storyline for Secondary teacher?

Aug

2010

Christina Roewe A day later a group of European Secondary teachers arrived in Glasgow. We also created a Storyline with the topic “Capital Tours”, but with the emphasis on Secondary teaching. The colleagues from Portugal, Spain, Rumania, Germany, Italy and Sweden had the chance to find out how the method Storyline works and motivates pupils ...