OTHER INTENDED OUTCOMES All of the other intended outcomes for the project were also realised – the children are deeply proud of their stories and were excited every week to receive their pictures from their illustrators. They gave a lot of thought and consideration to their writing and where they wanted to take the story each week. Their voices were at the heart of this project and their ideas were handled with care and creativity by their illustrators. ADDITIONAL OUTCOMES Along with all of these intended outcomes the project also became a powerful learning experience for the class with the regard to the construction of narrative and how to put together a story. In order for the story to work and the illustrations to follow one from the other the children had to pick up the narrative thread they had created the previous week and add something which followed (reasonably) naturally from where they had left off. At the start of the project they had to make a logical introduction to the story and in the final week they had to create an ending. This experience of story-telling over a long period has already made a difference to their writing and will also provide an ‘anchor-point’ example for us when we are talking about building a story in the future. If I was to repeat the project this would become one of the the primary aims in the project rationale and consideration would be given as to how to maximise this impact.
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