It can be difficult sometimes for children to come up with ideas for their own story writing, even with sufficient scaffolding children are often stuck for ideas. The trick is to ensure that children are confident in their oral storytelling skills, before going onto written storytelling – especially since their oral skills will quite often be ahead of their writing skills.

Use our handy guide – How to Encourage Children to Become Storytellers – and use our tried and tested categories to encourage children to become the best storytellers they can be! Perfect after lockdown 2021 and also for SEND children.

Use in conjunction with our guide to wordless books.

Explore our post lockdown return to school resources.