📖 Explorers: Story Bones

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids lesson that opens the new Story Workshop unit in the Explorer Club world. Four warm-up questions get the story brain going, then a language-focus section teaches three things: the three 'bones' of a story (beginning, middle, end); the four magic order words (First → Then → After that → Finally); and a matching table that links each order word to a part of the story. Ten key words — story, beginning, middle, end, first, then, after that, finally, order, skeleton — appear with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six become review flashcards. The reading, 'The Lost Compass', is a ~100-word Team Compass story with a clear beginning, middle and end and all four order words in natural past narration, with hover-tooltip glosses on the target words. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank items (order words, story bones and past verbs) with live green/red validation, hints and a score. A speaking section retells the story in four steps with a model five-line dialogue; a guided 25–45 word writing task builds a four-line story using one order word per line, with a matching checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and an 8-question quiz mixes story structure and sequencers with two reading-comprehension questions, complete with progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.