How It Works…
Story Learning Lab© explores how teacher-mediated, AI-powered personalised storytelling can enhance vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and learner engagement in young ESL learners. Each story is co-created with students and transformed through AI into an interactive digital book, combining learner voice with adaptive, technology-supported design.
Idea Generation
Students generate ideas for characters, settings, and events through guided discussion using the Story Making Pack™, with teacher-mediated AI supporting the development and shaping of these ideas into a coherent narrative.
AI Story Creation
The story is co-constructed using AI, with high-frequency and lesson-specific vocabulary intentionally embedded. Key vocabulary is enhanced through embedded video flashcards within the digital story to support pronunciation, meaning, and recall.
Interactive Reading
The completed story is transformed into a digital storybook with AI voiceover, allowing students to read, listen, and discuss while reinforcing vocabulary and comprehension through meaningful context.
Vocabulary Categories Explained
The vocabulary embedded in each story is organised into several categories to support structured language exposure. These categories are aligned with the existing classroom curriculum and reflect the types of vocabulary students are already encountering in their regular lessons. Integrating these words into personalised stories allows students to revisit familiar language in a meaningful narrative context.
Domain-Specific Vocabulary
Words related to particular ideas or topics within the story.
These terms help expand conceptual understanding and introduce more specialised language connected to the lesson content.
Oral Vocabulary
Words typically introduced through speaking and listening activities in the classroom.
These words support conversational language development and encourage students to use new vocabulary during discussion and storytelling.
Selection Vocabulary
Key words chosen to match the theme and narrative of the story.
These words are often drawn directly from the lesson or unit focus, reinforcing vocabulary students are currently learning in the curriculum.
High-Frequency Words
Common English words that appear frequently in early reading materials and literacy programmes.
Repeated exposure within stories helps learners develop automatic word recognition and supports the development of reading fluency.