Organizing Writing Activities

Last week, I worked with a teacher who was having difficulty helping his first-grade students use organize their writing. The problem was the students couldn’t understand the different story elements. Organizing writing for young children involves writing sentences that flow. Children must learn to write a story with a beginning, middle and end. To help solve the problem, I gave the students an interactive writing activity on the computer.


The Story Studio activity is a fun and engaging activity, with characters urging the students on. Each story is only four pages long, which quickly helps the student feel a sense of accomplishment. There are categories of pictures students can use to illustrate their stories. Each category corresponds to a story, so children can write multiple stories. They can easily select and insert a sentence starter into their story. There is simple word processing functionality to help them get their thoughts into their writing document. Now they are ready to write the middle and ending sentences!

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