Helping Kids Write Their Own Stories: How Reading Fuels Writing Skills
Encouraging creativity, confidence and a lifelong love of words We all remember the books that sparked our imaginations as children — the ones that made us dream, wonder, or feel deeply seen. But what we don’t always realise is this: those stories didn’t just entertain us… they gave us the tools to tell our own. When children read widely and often, they begin to absorb the building blocks of storytelling — characters, plot, rhythm, dialogue. […]