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Website Design by JackrabbitTeam storytelling encourages creative writing and practice of written language. It also helps children learn how to write clear sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea, and how to be thoughtful about the audience and purpose of written material.
Gather all materials.
Ask your students what their favorite books or stories are. Make a list on a piece of chart paper or on a chalkboard. What do they like about these stories? Are there any characters that they really like?
Work with your teammates to write a story, then illustrate it before you share it with your class.
After 5-10 minutes, bring your students together to talk about what they have done so far. How did they decide what their story would be about? What did they do if a teammate wrote something that made the story different than they had imagined it?
Have your students finish writing and illustrating their stories. Give each team an opportunity to read their story and show their illustrations to the rest of the class.