Using the children's spoken input from the sessions in the school I have tried to tell the stories in as close a way as possible to how they were constructed in the classroom while the children were present. This increases ownership and recollection of the process, contributed words and the completed story. In many instances I have videoed the 3 objects that were used in the generation of the tri-part story, where each object relates to the beginning, middle and end of the story. Go to the bottom of the page to find some of the reasoning behind the construction of simple, linear stories.
The stories mimic the traditional tales because there is not a huge amount of action but an emphasis on description and an awareness of creating an engaging story for a specific audience. This involves an understanding of giving a story a lot more input than a series of events; there is a need to describe the setting and the character with a series of relevant and ever-expanding, adjectival vocabulary. There are many instances where it is a recollection of actual experiences to help give the story some substance.