From site: This activity begins with the reading aloud of several math-oriented stories, identifies key mathematical vocabulary terms, models math story writing, and then gives students an opportunity to write addition and subtraction stories. Students first draw a series of pictures which depict adding more or taking away objects; they then write a correlating story to go with the pictures theyve drawn. Finally, students share their stories aloud, and equations are written which symbolize the adding and subtracting written into the stories.