Reflection 8 - Sydney Story Factory (Workshop/Presentation with Richard Short)

This reflection will be looking at a workshop with Sydney Story Factory held by Richard Short the chief storyteller within the story factory. Throughout this workshop it was important to know that each child can write and each child can create magnificent stories. Within this workshop we were able to experience many different strategies to apply writing skills and also create an introduction together as a class through certain steps such as who, what, where and when. However, we first created our own Martian together. With this Martian we had to create a story based on events that we as a class created including the time, setting and event. The Sydney Story Factory was a very successful workshop because it allowed for students to be creative in their writing, especially for those who struggle with writing and has difficulty starting an imaginative story. Creative/descriptive writing helps students to use their imagination and creativity, whether it is through visual arts, media arts, dance, music or drama (Ewing, Hristofski, Gibson, Campbell & Robertson, 2011, p. 37).

Brainstorming our story

The character that we had my table had created named Walter Zoltaaan

Walter Zoltaaan's information 

Our story according to the information given below

Information to add to the story

Reference:

Ewing, R., Hristofski, H., Gibson, R., Campbell, V. & Robertson, A. (2011). Using Drama to Enhance Literacy: The School Drama Initiative. Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, 19:3, pp. 33-39.