Silly Stories
My friend Trina and I were talking about linear vs. nonlinear storytelling and how the story-spine guides a particular kind of linear story. She's in educational publishing and is also bilingual (Spanish) so had some insights into how an emphasis on linear stories is very American.
For variety, treat your kiddo(es) and yourself to a nonlinear wordplay or story treat!
There are many, many examples in children's literature and these often are based in funny rhyming and made up words and just plain old delicious word play.
A few ideas:
Rhyming words back and forth. LP loves to do this and the "rules" such as they are include any word rhymes that she says, we can repeat words and make up words ("ishkaboo" and "blue" and "new" all rhyme with "new")
Tell a story about a favorite animal and see how far you can get with rhymes (see if you can let go of making "sense"). For example: There once was a duck, a lucky duck, lucky dippy ducky duck who drove a truck with lots of pluck into muckity muck. (That satisfies for a whole story sometimes). When we build on that, I ask LP a question like "what did the duck do next?" or "who did the duck meet?"...sometimes it simply loops back into the rhymes we did (if I remember them, otherwise it is all new territory) and other times moves forward as the duck and crocodile nap for awhile, while they smile in a pile that went for a mile.
A purely gibberish story. Gibberish is a made up language that anyone can speak...it can be as simple as "blah blah blahblahblah blaaaaah blah" (think the adults in the Charlie Brown specials) or in an animal language (The cow told a story "Once upon a moo, moo moooo moo moo"). Use inflection, intonation speed, emphasis etc to give meaning to it. You don't need to know what the meaning its, this is all about playing with language.
Sound effects story...all about adding those fun noises. "Walking through the mud I squish, squash, sploosh. The rain pitter-patters, patter-pitters then comes down with a whoosh! "
Those are my first thoughts about it...please do share your ideas too!
For variety, treat your kiddo(es) and yourself to a nonlinear wordplay or story treat!
There are many, many examples in children's literature and these often are based in funny rhyming and made up words and just plain old delicious word play.
A few ideas:
Rhyming words back and forth. LP loves to do this and the "rules" such as they are include any word rhymes that she says, we can repeat words and make up words ("ishkaboo" and "blue" and "new" all rhyme with "new")
Tell a story about a favorite animal and see how far you can get with rhymes (see if you can let go of making "sense"). For example: There once was a duck, a lucky duck, lucky dippy ducky duck who drove a truck with lots of pluck into muckity muck. (That satisfies for a whole story sometimes). When we build on that, I ask LP a question like "what did the duck do next?" or "who did the duck meet?"...sometimes it simply loops back into the rhymes we did (if I remember them, otherwise it is all new territory) and other times moves forward as the duck and crocodile nap for awhile, while they smile in a pile that went for a mile.
A purely gibberish story. Gibberish is a made up language that anyone can speak...it can be as simple as "blah blah blahblahblah blaaaaah blah" (think the adults in the Charlie Brown specials) or in an animal language (The cow told a story "Once upon a moo, moo moooo moo moo"). Use inflection, intonation speed, emphasis etc to give meaning to it. You don't need to know what the meaning its, this is all about playing with language.
Sound effects story...all about adding those fun noises. "Walking through the mud I squish, squash, sploosh. The rain pitter-patters, patter-pitters then comes down with a whoosh! "
Those are my first thoughts about it...please do share your ideas too!
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