Enchanting Storytelling
Students can get creative writing about wild adventures, magical places, mysteries, kings, queens, etc. Even the youngest students can dictate stories to a parent to record. Sometimes, students need some help in getting their story started. Here are some great "story-starters" that you can copy, cut out, and have your student draw from a hat.

Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a very special child named...

Llewellyn the Dragon could not fly like all the other dragons. He had a very special gift that no other dragon in the land had. He knew how to…

There was once a little girl who loved to read. One day while she was reading…

Here's what you need:

• Construction paper (for front and back cover)
• Colored paper (for pages)
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Hole punch
• Brightly colored yarn
• Blunt Needle

Here's what you do:

• Determine size of the finished book.
• Fold colored-paper sheets in half vertically.
• Slip the pages between the front and back covers
• Mark a row of three evenly spaced dots just in from the folded spine.
• Punch holes in all the sheets
• Cut three pieces of yarn several times the length of the book
• Thread needle and loop yarn through each hole, leaving a loose end of several inches.
• Tie each of the loose ends of the yarn together with a small bow.
• Decorate the cover with rubber stamps, collages, glitter, stickers, and wrapping paper.
• Then, write your story.