As a follow-up to my last post, I wanted to offer you a downloadable version of one of the activities I created for my day in the Alphabet Forest: ”Make Your Own ‘Story Wheel.’”
The Story Wheel I brought for my day featured State Fair elements to fit my usual suggested story-starter mix of characters, settings, and conflicts. But as the download shows, your students can create their own simple Story Wheels to fit anyplace they might travel (in reality or in their imaginations): the beach, a ballgame, the backyard, the school building, the bottom of the ocean, even a black hole in outer space…
Check it out and see if it might work for your young writers. Visit this page on my website and scroll down to the bottom to find the link.