National Storytelling week starts on 29th January 2011. There are lots of resources available for use in the classroom for use on the interactive whiteboard and to support visual literacy and get your children telling stories.

Children in KS1 can watch a treasure chest being washed ashore in this simple visual story starter with an accompanying onscreen vocabulary bank. Or try this slightly longer one called 'The Missing Apples' in the groovy garden,  which has a longer slightly more complex introduction that gives children a story to complete. Both of these could be used for children to continue as a whole class story telling session.

For a wide range of video clips for story starters that have been compiled under different headings try these visual literacy video clips. If you would like to get your children writing stories online then try this range of story starters where they can make choices under a range of different story types to compile their own story, saving that 'I don't know where to start' feeling.

Teachers TV offers a selection of dramatic story starter video clips, probably best suited to KS2, there are seven on one fifteen minute downloadable video or another nine on different themes on a seperate download. These range from a piglet exploring a barn to a girl looking around a spooky basement and provide a good varied selection to get a storytelling or writing session going.

Or for very young children try this whiteboard activity to create different characters to put into a story.

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