What Is Your Story?
Intrigue your students with a unique and challenging puzzle: putting together their own life stories.This book is a cross-curricular resource in which family, community and cultural identity are sources for meaningful student research and writing. It provides stimulating activities that support students to examine and value their personal lives, encouraging them to record their lives using a range of text types. There are helpful hints and practical suggestions for organising material and documents, plus outlines of a range of presentation formats.
Ages: 9-11 years
About the Author
Jean Bennett
Jean Bennett is the author of 28 fiction and non-fiction books for young people, plus
short stories, poetry, and journalism for adult readers. She enjoys tutoring writing workshops and helping students to develop their writing skills. Jean is a qualified librarian and adult educator. Previous roles include information literacy lecturer and Newspapers-in-Education coordinator. In 2003, Jean was awarded the Storylines/Betty Gilderdale Award for services to New Zealand children's literature.