My 60 second Magic Formula for 7+ Story Writing Success

Do you know what 6 year olds should be doing over their summer break?

Enjoying it!

Whatever that means for them.

Going to 4 hours of 7+ Assessment preparation classes each week over the summer break is just not necessary.

Hours and hours of story writing doesn’t mean story writing success.

In fact, it might go the other way!

At this very young age, short, sharp bursts are always best.

Always.

So let your child enjoy their summer break and use my 60 second Magic Formula for 7+ Story writing success.

You are welcome!

1. Pick a stimulus (5 seconds)

At the table, place your stimulus. This could be a picture you’ve printed or a real object.

Eg. A jewel, a rock, a picture of a fountain to give you some examples.

2. Introduce your character, setting and problem (20 seconds)

Ask your child to tell you this and you write it down for them.

If your child struggles will this (Hint: most children do!), then they need to be reading more. Reading adventure books to help them to generate their ideas.

3. Go into detail about the problem (20 seconds)

Ask your child to tell you what exactly happens in the build up section (middle paragraph)

4. Finish the story (15 seconds)

Ask your child to tell you how their story will end.

Will it end well or not?

Moral or a question to finish?

The more you can use my 60 second Magic Formula, the more ideas your child will have when it comes to actually writing their story in their 7+ Assessment.

Remember that this is just the planning and thinking stage.

Then your child will actually need to write their story.

However, again, you don’t need hours and hours. Just give your child 30 minutes and see what they produce.

Mark it and give feedback and ask them to re-write it (again in 30 minutes)

Keep doing this process until you have the story that is the final story and this will become their model.

Place it into a folder in which you will create a selection of stories.

Read these daily.

You want to aim to have a collection of at least 12 amazing, well written stories before your child sits their 7+ Assessments.

If you want your child to master story writing for the 7+ Assessments, book your place on my incredible 7+ Intensive Summer Course .

This is what I love to do. I will help your child to love it too!