My Own Stories ®
On-line Manual
My Own Stories
Introduction
Translating Imagination into Stories
Children are natural storytellers. Through their vivid
imaginations, they explore new and familiar worlds.
Through pictures and stories, they bring their imaginations to
others.
The My Own Stories™ software program is a creative tool
that transforms children’s imaginations into stories. Using
My Own Stories is like entering a library rich with books
written by great young authors—kids just like yours!
Drawing from children’s every day world, My Own Stories
features over 500 images and over 500 scenery combinations
that kids can use in their stories. In addition, 16 colors,
41 sounds, 13 songs, 11 page borders, and 5 type styles bring
stories to life. My Own Stories gives kids a perfect way to
express their creativity. With My Own Stories, children create
their own stories by weaving a tapestry of ideas, words,
pictures, sounds, and music into their rich story fabric.
With My Own Stories, children experience the pleasure of
writing and illustrating the stories that interest them the
most—their own—and the pride of sharing their stories with
others.
Encouraging Your Child’s Creativity
What can you do to encourage the creativity of your budding
young authors? Here are a few ideas.
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Talk with your children about their experiences.
Authors write best from their own experiences. As your
children participate in a variety of activities, talk with them
about their experiences to give them ideas for their writing.
Use books to spark ideas for writing.
Literature provides a model as well as a springboard for
children’s writing. Visit your local library with your children
to select books that explore experiences from their everyday
world. These books are sure to spark ideas for writing with
My Own Stories.
Help your children publish their own storybooks.
Children feel a great sense of pride in their “published” work.
Make book covers using cloth, wallpaper scraps, or
construction paper to bind a finished story into a book.
Make your children’s stories part of your reading
time together.
Plan to read aloud with your children the stories they have
written with My Own Stories. Stories can be printed to create
storybooks, and you can also share stories on the computer.
Encourage children to share their stories with
others.
Have your children send printed storybooks to family and
friends. A story from a child is a treasured keepsake. You can
even send a disk with your child’s story to family and friends
for them to read on the computer.
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Most of all, create a special shelf in your home library for the
storybooks your child has written. After all, your child is a
published author now!
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