Write, Play and Record

What’s on offer?

The event will be a collaborative storytelling activity.

The storyteller, Dave Gerow, will tell a story to the children, who will be invited to collaborate on the story-telling/writing process through interjections, laughter, discussion and sound effects, pushing the story in unexpected directions. The children and storyteller will then retell the story as a group, but with a playful mixing of technology and stories, so there's no knowing how the story will come out. Next, the children will be divided into three groups of ten, with each child assigned a character who they will be invited to create props for (for example, masks and objects and record sound effects). The three groups of children will then take turns telling their stories, which they will be encouraged to change in any way they like. The aim is for children to experience playful forms of writing that involve technologies, bodies, sounds and craft to expand imaginations and possibilities of stories.

What’s it about?

The event takes up concepts of authoring and acts of (re)storying with technologies and crafts to create a dynamic and engaging literacy event. The research is based in the work undertaken by the Children’s Literature and Literacies groups at the University of Glasgow and builds on Dr Elizabeth Nelson’s work on play, theatre and digital childhoods. It further addresses Articles 31 and 13 in the UNCR Rights of the Child to engage children in creative playful forms of multimodal storytelling, inviting their freedom of expression in a joyful, creative, and playful reimagining of writing as an embodied, affective literacy event.

Who’s leading the event?

The team facilitating the events are Dr Elizabeth Nelson, School of Education with Storyteller, Dave Gerow.

Open to

Primary 2 (aged 5 to 7)

Of particular interest to

Schools