Shapeshifting Stories

2 × 45 minute lessons

Years 1-6

Shapeshifting Stories provides handy tips and techniques to create compelling and dramatic stories.

With the help of characters, including superhero show-off Frostica and the trainee warlock Solpadon, you will learn the fundamentals of story building - who, what, how and where.

What's Inside?

Two videos
Three activity sheets
Creative approaches to improving children's writing
Two fantastical characters to inspire children's imagination

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