IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4 “Story Kitchen” www.brucevanpatter.com/storykitchen.html
Welcome to Story Kitchen!
Looking
for a place to suffice the hunger of writing?
Story Kitchen is the place to choose from a list of
ingredients to creative writing! As you
open up the recipe book, you will be amazed of the bountiful of stories! Story Kitchen is the website for creative writing for
kids. Hmm! That aroma, I wonder what is cooking? Inside Story Kitchen is a place where children imagine the
many wonderful ideas and stories that are cooking deep inside their minds! Through the enchanted world of Story Kitchen, by a click of a finger, children,
parents and teachers create their very own stories. All they need to do is choose from the ingredients
by picking one hero, one place and one villain that is provided in the menu. Before you see the start of the story, you
would have to think about the choices made and how to combine the choices you
made in the story. By a click of a
button, the start of the story appears but it is not quite finish. The writer has to complete the story using
their imagination and creativity. That’s
not all, Story Kitchen loves to read the writers completed
story by the touch of the link enclosed.
Story Kitchen provides “Tips for Teachers” that
explains how to use the story generator and have students build their very own
stories. Story Kitchen is a place to inspire young writers to
be creative with their stories. If the
writer prefers not to choose from the menu, there is a quicker way of
choosing. Just click on the menu and a
list of story starters to write about and these stories can be printed to use
in the classroom or at home!
Story Kitchen provides children with a variety of Web
page activities. These include “The What-if Question Genie where the story begins with the “What if” questions. Mugshots are a great way to think and create a character
for a story. The writer chooses a face,
click and the main character appears. Another link is KidTales and these are kid-made stories of 700
student drawings to choose from. Pick a
drawing and students imagine what they will write about. The “Weird Headline Maker” which creates random headlines for the
writer. All the writer needs to do is
imagine what story made the headlines and “The Headline Maker” will produce the wackiest headlines
where weird things happen all the time.
What a great way to help the writer create a story by starting with the
wackiest headline.
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