A few ideas my helpful son has given me to try.
1. Writing using national geographic images for creative writing. He says you do the "what happened before, what is happening now and what will happen next" as the writing prompts. I wonder if you could use this with a round robin brainstorm, so you can collect lots of story ideas form the whole class.
2. Writing scripts - we all know that kids love performing plays, but how often do we let them write scripts. I am hoping to have the time to allow this this term. I understand that it will be quite complex once the kids get into it, so that what the characters are saying id able to tell a story. We are starting by doing readers theatre (where like a play they read out parts, but there are no actions, verbal only) hopefully this will give them some ideas of how simple the storylines are - a single idea really not a long drawn out story.
I hope this will motivate my reluctant boys and i can get more than action sounds out of them? Watch this space.
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