Mr Graham visited the Scottish Learning Festival last week and brought us back a surprise!  An amazing resource for encouraging children’s creative writing.  It’s called Mighty Writer.  It’s on the wall in our writing area and is already proving very popular.  It has really attractive visuals and it also introduces words to start our sentences with.  It gives children a sense of the beginning, middle and end of a story and encourages the use of adverbs and adjectives.  The children see it as an enjoyable game and we are excited that we can introduce writing in a really fun way, encouraging dynamic storytelling, with less emphasis on the need to put pencil to paper- something that our children often are not ready to do.

From the moment we put it on the wall, we started getting very exciting stories.

 

Emily wrote:

Once upon a time there was a naughty witch who liked to turn everyone into aliens.  One day she was in her tree house and she magicked up some fruit and magicked up a treasure chest.  Suddenly a mermaid appeared and turned her into a diamond, as sparkly as the moon.

Keiran wrote:

There once was a strong quiet robot who was quite big who liked to do all kinds of stuff.  He had some money and a witch stole it and threw it in the water and the robot went into a submarine.  He landed on the moon where a cave was and he found treasure!!!!! He was a really happy robot!

Callum wrote:

Once there was a fierce, two headed monster.  He met a girl who turned him into two people using her magic wand.  Then they went to a circus tent where they met a mermaid who did mermaid magic.  Then the sun came out and they went up into the air in a hot air balloon and landed on a magic carpet with a BUMP!

Isla L wrote:

Once upon a time there was a very strong wind and he blew the sun out of the sky – it landed on a house.  The girl who lived in the house had to run out.  She ran to a man’s house and he gave her some cake.  When the girl had gone to her bed, the man took the sun on a trampoline.  He boinged it up into the sky again and they all lived happily ever after!

Wow – if this is what our wee authors can write as a first attempt, what will they be doing by June!!

If you would like to have a look at this fabulous, new resource please feel free to come into the Discovery Zone playroom and have a look.