If your kids love to make up silly stories ... These story dice act as exciting story starters to kick off engaging narrative writing. It’s the perfect tool for your writing centers, literacy ...

Creating Stories That Fly," a how-to-write guide for kids 10 and up. The book's advice covers the basics: add a mix of narrative and dialogue; don't solve all the problems until the end ...

The payoff is more immediate than with longer narrative or expository writing. Plus, poetry lends itself to teaching kids about figurative language, voice, sensory images, showing, not telling ...