Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Narrative Consultant Jenifer Strauss teaches children how to write stories by telling a story. The presentation was held at the Luther L. Wright Ironwood K-12 School Thursday. Three second grade classes attended the morning session.
By KIM E. STROM
IRONWOOD - We are all storytellers as human beings, according to narrative consultant Jenifer Strauss. And if we can tell a story out loud, we can certainly write it.
"That is what this whole program is about," said Strauss who spent the morning working with children in the second, fourth and fifth grades at the Luther L. Wright K-12 School. "Many fear the writing process. They think they don't have good ideas and they do," she said.
"I let them know that story material is all around. There are stories in songs in books and stories we can make up or ret...
