Creative writing · lesson 8 of 24 · free

Practice: story building blocks — Creative writing for kids

This practice mixes lessons 1–7: characters, setting, problem, solution, beginning-middle-end, sequence words and what happens next.

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Writer's tip

Build it block by block — “who, where and when, what goes wrong, how it is fixed, in order”

  1. Decide which building block the question is about.
  2. Use that lesson’s tip: who has the problem, where and when, what goes wrong, how it is fixed, or what comes first.
  3. Check your choice against the story text.

Use it for: Revising Part 1 before you write a full story of your own.

Worked example: These sentences come from one story. Which one is the BEGINNING? → On a busy Monday, Meera rode the school bus to class.

  1. The choices: “Meera and her friend Tenzin searched seat by seat.”, “On a busy Monday, Meera rode the school bus to class.”, “Meera shared her parathas with Tenzin to say thank you.”
  2. Only one sentence introduces Meera with a time (on a busy Monday) and a place (the school bus).

Check: Beginning → search → thank you: the story flows ✓

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