Story workshop

When it time for kids to do some story writing, often it’s difficult for them to start because either they don’t know exactly how to organize their story or they don’t know what to write about. This FREE Story Writing Pack helps with both problems! *This free printable pack can be found towards the END of ... Read More about Story Writing Ideas for Kids {FREE Pack}

Storytelling with Loose Parts is where magic happens! Today, I want to share a few provocations with Loose Parts for the story: Three Billy Goats Gruff.

30 projects develop writing skills, fine motor activities, creative writing ideas for children, literacy centers, sensory writing activities

Story stones are a favorite in our home! I've perfected a simple way to make them, so we have a TON of them laying around the house. We use them in many

It's week three! Week three involves the next step of the writing process, the story elements, and hopefully your little learners are getting closer to writing a story! Continue With Mentor Texts I mentioned mentor texts in my last post about prewriting planning. I continue using mentor texts at this point in the writing process.

Children have an innate love of stories. Stories create magic and a sense of wonder of the world. In our fast-paced media driven society, sh...

My best kindergarten writers workshop tips are shared in this post. There are way more tips I can share, b ut I hope this will get you started! We will start with the routines of kindergarten writing and some of the best practices that are out there.

Teachers and parents, use these picture books as mentor texts to show kids the process of writing a story. Read about getting ideas for stories, and the storytelling/story writing process, including story elements.

Inspired by the recently published book, Show Me a Story, by Emily Neuberger, my kids and I sat down one morning to work on a story map. What started as a creative kick starter, turned into a four hour project that kept us highly engaged until lunch. We love making maps, so this was not something too new. What was different was the scale (the entire floor of our learning lab) and the inclusion of many, many plastic creatures (and cotton balls, blocks, fabric trees and more). We became…

How to promote early learning, story retelling, letter recognition, name recognition and more through loose parts play. By combining literacy and loose parts play preschoolers and kindergartens can engage in meaningful hands-on play as they develop early reading skills.