Story Writing

Wow, times flies when you are online and flying through resources!  I found so many lovely story writing sites, but these two especially caught my eye.

The first one is Word Tamer - it is visually a very pleasing site with a real feeling of adventure!  You have a 'live' narrator who guides you through the process of your story.

You can choose:

• your character's traits
• their hair
• their eye colour
• their size, etc.

You are then led on to jot down information about your character:

• where they live
• what they like
• what they don't like
• who there friends are, etc.

You can choose a few words to incorporate into the story too.  I think that I will try this with my older children this term!

The other one I liked, I think may be more suited to younger children, but, having said that, I felt like writing something seeing the funny combinations that popped up!  This is from Story Starters.



• Enter your name
• Then pull the "SPIN" handle
• Each section comes up with an idea
• If you don't really like the idea, you can press the button in that section for a "Re Spin"
• From there you select the format you want your writing to take: "Notebook, Letter, Newspaper or Postcard"
• Begin to write
• There is also a space for budding illustrators should they wish to add a drawing
• Print!

So often children's stories are tied in with their favourite movie, or TV program, even their characters are, at times, a re-hash of a character that they already like.

This is why I love these ideas. I feel TV has had a negative impact on our imagination and so I like the idea of re-engaging imagination and fantasy - We will be surprised what our children come up with, I am sure!