ABSTRACT

Jumpstart! Storymaking is a collection of games and activities to develop the creative process of ‘storymaking’. It focuses upon 'storytelling for writing' as well as creating a whole school culture of storytelling, reading and writing. Storymaking is the process of retelling, innovating and creating new stories.

Like the best-selling Jumpstart! Literacy, this book contains imaginative ‘quick-fire' ideas that could be used as creative warm-ups and starters or developed into lessons. There are over 100 provocative and thought-provoking games and activities, intended to ‘jumpstart’ storytelling, reading and writing in any Key Stage 1, 2 or 3 classroom. Practical, easy-to-do and vastly entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers.

 

chapter Chapter 1|9 pages

Creative warm-ups

chapter Chapter 2|5 pages

Strengthening the imagination

chapter Chapter 3|13 pages

Sentence games

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

Character games

chapter Chapter 5|10 pages

Games to develop settings

chapter Chapter 6|37 pages

Storymaking games

chapter Chapter 7|5 pages

Twenty things to do with a story

chapter Chapter 8|5 pages

Story reading detectives

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

Creating a storymaking climate in school and classroom

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

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