What is Story Making?
I have heard lots of people mentioning their children are story making at home which is great! You will notice the new display board outside the classroom where I have displayed the steps we go through in class when we 'story make'.
‘Story making’ aims to help children internalise stories, enriching their own writing and talking. The link below explains the theory behind story making, and will be useful if you want to do some at home. There are three main components to story making; imitation, innovation and invention.
In Year one, we retell the story until we can tell it fluently. Traditional tales are perfect for story making because they are usually repetitive (although we have used other stories in our story making this year, we have just changed the story a little bit!)
We use sign language and a story map to help. Here is an example of our story map for the tiger who came to tea.
Then we adapt the story by sticking post-it notes on our story map. As you can see in the picture above, we have changed the character of the tiger to a bear, and the food he ate in the story. We retell the new story adding in new signs, until we know it really well. We follow our story map to help us. (Sometimes we even use a wand...)
Then we are ready to write our new story. By this time, the children should have internalised the story. Effectively, the story map acts as a plan for what they need to write, and the children should be able to remember the sentence that goes with the picture.
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