{"id":3690,"date":"2018-09-28T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2018-09-28T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:51:11","slug":"mighty-writer-prepare-for-some-epic-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2018\/09\/28\/mighty-writer-prepare-for-some-epic-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Writer- prepare for some epic stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mr Graham visited the Scottish Learning Festival last week and brought us back a surprise!\u00a0 An amazing resource for encouraging children’s creative writing.\u00a0 It’s called Mighty Writer.\u00a0 It’s on the wall in our writing area and is already proving very popular.\u00a0 It has really attractive visuals and it also introduces words to start our sentences with.\u00a0 It gives children a sense of the beginning, middle and end of a story and encourages the use of adverbs and adjectives.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

From the moment we put it on the wall, we started getting very exciting stories.<\/p>\n

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Emily wrote:<\/p>\n

Once upon a time there was a naughty witch who liked to turn everyone into aliens.\u00a0 One day she was in her tree house and she magicked up some fruit and magicked up a treasure chest.\u00a0 Suddenly a mermaid appeared and turned her into a diamond, as sparkly as the moon.<\/p>\n

Keiran wrote:<\/p>\n

There once was a strong quiet robot who was quite big who liked to do all kinds of stuff.\u00a0 He had some money and a witch stole it and threw it in the water and the robot went into a submarine.\u00a0 He landed on the moon where a cave was and he found treasure!!!!! He was a really happy robot!<\/p>\n

Callum wrote:<\/p>\n

Once there was a fierce, two headed monster.\u00a0 He met a girl who turned him into two people using her magic wand.\u00a0 Then they went to a circus tent where they met a mermaid who did mermaid magic.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n

Isla L wrote:<\/p>\n

Once upon a time there was a very strong wind and he blew the sun out of the sky – it landed on a house.\u00a0 The girl who lived in the house had to run out.\u00a0 She ran to a man’s house and he gave her some cake.\u00a0 When the girl had gone to her bed, the man took the sun on a trampoline.\u00a0 He boinged it up into the sky again and they all lived happily ever after!<\/p>\n

Wow – if this is what our wee authors can write as a first attempt, what will they be doing by June!!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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