What is Story Making?
‘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 will use other stories too in our story making this year!
We use sign language and a story map to help. Here is an example of a 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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