Story Starters: Helping Children Write Like They've Never Written Before

by Karen Andreola

Book Overview

Story Starters is designed to awaken the dormant writer in your child. It has just the right ingredients to inspire even the reluctant writer or the student who has experienced discouragement. A story... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188920904X
• ISBN13: 9781889209043
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Charlotte Mason Research & Supply
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

fabulous!

This book is wonderful! Even my reluctant writer is having fun and producing interesting stories. We get together with 2 other children to read the stories together.

Fantastic!

I recently purchased and browsed through Story Starters by Karen Andreola. All I can say is fantastic! I could have spent hours just looking over all the fabulous antique illustrations, of which Mrs. Andreola has collected over the years. These in and of themselves would be great story starters, and there is a section of the book set aside for this purpose. But section 2, the beginning stories themselves, are wonderful! Mrs. Andreola has written over 50 stories for the children to expand upon - lively stories of alligators, floods, and shipwrecks, and character building stories of honesty, helpfulness, and patience. There is something for everyone, boy or girl, 6 or 16. These aren't only exercises in creative writing. There are grammar, literary, and narration helps along the way in this 458 page oversized softbound book. My girls and I looked through it, and they are just as excited as I to start. With my 6yo, the stories are a bit beyond her reading level, so I'll be reading her the stories and typing up her narrations of the story conclusions for her to illustrate. My 9yo will be reading the stories herself, and we'll see how she does with writing the conclusions on her own. We may go with narrations for a bit too. We'll see what works. But they are EXCITED about writing, and this is a GOOD thing. :-)

Wonderful book

This book has become a favorite of my 10 and 13-year olds. We use it for Creative Writing class in our homeschool. It's our "together" time--I read the start of the story to them, and of course, they finish it. The stories are very inspiring to their imaginations and they have become more descriptive in their writing. This book could easily be used for all ages - even younger children, though they might not be able to write, could finish the story verbally. I sure hope a second edition is in the works!

So far, so good!

We haven't had a chance to use this book a lot, but what opportunities we have, my daughter has enjoyed using it. It is a thick book, so it has a lot in it for the money. Can be used for several grade levels, especially good for those who like the classics or a more old fashioned approach to story writing. The illustrations are fun, straight out of vintage style books. I do recommend this for those who find their child likes getting a spark to get them going in their writing!