Writing+Connections


 * Writing Connections to Further Support Literacy Skills:**

1. Write a letter to your Character (See 4th Week Activities). 2. Write invitations for the Storytelling Festival 3. Objects in a Bag activity (See 5th Week Activities). 4. Fractured Tales (from __Children Tell Stories__, pg. 39): 5. Write your own Pourquoi or "Why" Tales: explain why or how something came to be. 6. Further Adventures (from Children Tell Stories, p. 57):
 * Make the story happen in a different time and place
 * Change the basic problem.
 * Tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters.
 * change the main character in some way (personality traits, gender, or physical appearance).
 * Have characters switch roles.
 * Change the moral.
 * Change the ending.
 * Choose a character from a story and write a new story in which the character encounters a new problem and adventures.

Hamilton, Martha and Weiss, Mitch. __Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom__. Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen, 2005.