Using MagicSchool to generate a story that incorporates a target grammar item

STEP 1: 

 MY PROMPT for Raina: 

the story should contain some adjectives and their corresponding adverbs. This story is to be read by junior primary ESL students. Keep the story within 120 words.

OUTPUT: 

Once upon a time, a little rabbit lived in a green forest. The rabbit was very quick and happy. Every morning, it hopped quickly through the trees and smelled the sweet flowers. One day, the rabbit saw a small bird singing loudly on a branch. The bird had a beautiful voice.

The rabbit wanted to sing too, so it practiced carefully every day. Soon, the rabbit sang beautifully and made all the animals happy. They clapped their paws and wings happily.

From that day on, the rabbit and the bird sang together loudly and joyfully in the green forest.

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STEP 2: 

Then I asked Raina to turn the story into a blank-filling exercise by changing the highlighted words to blanks. 

OUTPUT

Certainly! Here’s the story turned into a blank-filling exercise with the adjectives and adverbs as blanks for students to fill in:

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Once upon a time, a little rabbit lived in a ____ forest. The rabbit was very ____ and ____. Every morning, it hopped ____ through the trees and smelled the ____ flowers. One day, the rabbit saw a ____ bird singing ____ on a branch. The bird had a ____ voice.

The rabbit wanted to sing too, so it practiced ____ every day. Soon, the rabbit sang ____ and made all the animals ____. They clapped their paws and wings ____.

From that day on, the rabbit and the bird sang together ____ and ____ in the green forest.

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STEP 3: It offered to provide an Answer Key: 

OUTPUT: 

1. green
2. quick
3. happy
4. quickly
5. sweet
6. small
7. loudly
8. beautiful
9. carefully
10. beautifully
11. happy
12. happily
13. loudly
14. joyfully

It offered to provide a WORD BANK TOO. 

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 STEP 4: 

I asked Raina whether it could convert the above blank filling exercise to a web-based, interactive, version. It couldn't do that directly, but it generated an HTML file. I copied the file, went to POE's Canvas App, chose 'Build Manually', and pasted in the HTML FILE. 

It WORKED:

https://poe.com/preview/SFg27ZFs3w6tJu6OAGi5

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STEP 5: 

Still in POE'S App Creator, I asked: 

    Please put the answers in a word bank. Students can then drag each word in the word bank into the correct blank in the passage.

OUTPUT: 

Bravo: 

https://poe.com/preview/Rufa5C6bbu11s19l89sV