If you can write you can draw. With just a few letters of the alphabet you can create characters. (I can show you how in more detail if you invite me to your school or event)
Just like the full stop at the end of a sentence, dots are really useful.
With two dots in four Os - two pupils in 4 eye sockets you can get your characters looking at or away from each other - hey presto, a relationship!
And a relationship between characters, is a great prompt for a story.
There's more follow up but this is a start you can share with anyone, kids - grown ups - who say they can't draw.
Here are some pics to showing how kids and a few teachers got drawing. This is just one pic from one of 8 classes I visited thanks to the lovely people at this year's South Ken Kids Festival.
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| One class of Year 2s in Norland Park School, London |
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| This was a shorter (just 30 minute!) plenary session with about 90 children from 5 schools at the CWISL Shoutwest 2016 festival at Brunel University. |
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