Choose Your Own Adventure Stories

By Mrs. BushmanLaird School

Getting A Little Inspiration. Use a mind

mapping software (such as Inspiration) to diagram how your story will look.

Map it out. Each bubble should

represent a slide and should point to two outcomes.

Ultimately, the goal is for each set of outcomes to end up on the same ending slide. Numbering each circle can help with this. Make sure you include a title slide in the numbering.

It’s A Set Up. Create the blank

slides. You will have a title slide first, then the rest will be blank.

Remember, the slide numbers will be correlating with the numbers you assigned on the story map.

It’s all in the details. Add in the details

each slide tells for your story. Be sure to add graphics.

Add a separate space where the selections are going to be made to continue on the next story. These should be in the form of a question.

Button it up! Once you have written

your story pieces on the slides, it’s time to add the buttons.

Click on Slide Show, Action Buttons.

There are a number of uses for these buttons, our primary use will be to move to a specific slide.

Customize! In the sub menu for

Action Buttons, click Custom.

Location, location, location.

Your cursor will change to look like two intersecting lines.

Go to the location of your questions, then click and drag the cursor to create the square button. You can resize this button later if you want.

The big set up. When you release

the mouse, this box will pop up.

Click Hyperlink To Then click Slide.

Select the slide. Click on the slide

number you want this button to take the reader to. If you are unsure which slide, there is a nice preview pane for you to see what is on the slide for verification.

Click OK.

Appearances. Control + Click on

the button and select Format Shape.

Picture Perfect. In the pop-up box,

click on Fill on the left corner.

Click on the button marked picture.

Click on Choose a picture and select your picture for the button.

Click OK.

Multiply. You’ll now need to

replicate the action buttons for each slide. This is where the map on Inspiration comes in handy.

Sum It Up. This includes a

button on the final slide of the story that will take the reader back to the beginning to try another adventure!