Telling Stories

If you had to write a story, where would you begin, who would it star, where would it happen? Could you write so other people can see, hear and feel the story you are telling? It is quite a daunting proposition, yet, in the classroom children are asked to write stories as though it is routine. One boy I worked with never wrote more than a couple of lines, he explained that his brain was just a jumble with all the things he had to do to write the story, it was as if it was all stuck in his head and just wouldn’t ‘move to his fingers’ to write the stories he wanted to tell. I devised this technique...

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