Online workshop – Supporting Early Story Making with Young Children

Scottish Book Trusts Early Years Training Team

Live interactive workshop: Thursday 8 October 4.30-6pm

The online workshops are designed to be interactive with cameras and microphones on. Attendance will be needed on the day and the sessions will not be recorded.

Join us for a practical 90-minute workshop that explores how young children create, shape and share their own stories - long before they can read or write them down. This session focuses on story-making as a joyful, relational and playful process, and introduces simple, child-centered ways to support this through story mapping.

Whether you’re already using story maps in your setting or entirely new to the concept, this workshop offers a supportive space to deepen your understanding, try out ideas, and leave with practical approaches you can use with children and families straight away.

Learning Objectives

Participants will have opportunities to:

• Reflect on how children create stories through play, talk, movement, and imagination.
• Explore what story maps are and how they can be used in a child-centred way.
• Consider the adult’s role in noticing, naming and gently scaffolding children’s story ideas. 
• Consider how to involve families in children’s story-making and story mapping.
• Explore how song, rhyme and repetitive language can support story structure in playful ways.

We’ll explore how stories emerge naturally in children’s play, talk, drawings and interactions, and how adults can gently notice, value and build on these early narratives. You’ll be introduced to accessible approaches to story mapping that help make children’s ideas visible, memorable and shareable - without turning storytelling into a formal or adult-led activity.

Audience

This workshop is aimed at anyone involved with young children, either professionals or parents. 

Offers

Multibuy discount – purchase tickets for 3 or more of our webinars or workshops and save 20%.