First Short Story
We have two children; One is an avid speed reader. The other, most definitely is not. The speed reader will read stories; The other prefers reference and encyclopedic facts and figures, currently these are about Marvel superheroes and/or Dinosaurs. He has to be pushed a little more firmly to read than the other one. He has therefore developed methods of procrastination. He deployed one of these today.
He avoided the obvious one of reading in his head. He decided to disappear and write a story to then read. Quite ingenious to my mind. Here is the story that he wrote all by himself (I'll keep the errors, etc in);
"Once upon a time ther was a boy called Joe. Joe was a boy and this is the story of Joe. He was having a party in the bath and then a misterius [Mysterious] thing hapend [happened] "Loads of Boxes!" said Joe. The boxes squirted water. Then Joes dad said "Their [they] are my water boxes so you don't tuch [touch] them." Then William Shacespear [Shakespeare] came and said "do you want to read some of my books. He said. "No fanqew [Thank you] said Joe. Then it was night time.
The End.
A few things. He's actually adding direct speech punctuation marks in the right places so is obviously learning something at school. He, blatantly, can't spell, Thank you. but hey, he's introduced William Shakespeare into his own story. Admittedly, he then blanks the finest writer in english language history...
Here, above, is the first page of his Magnus Opus. I am convinced that there is no coincidence between my son choosing to write his letter in orange. There are only two others I know of who use orange ink, Leonardo Da Vinci and of course...his father.
He avoided the obvious one of reading in his head. He decided to disappear and write a story to then read. Quite ingenious to my mind. Here is the story that he wrote all by himself (I'll keep the errors, etc in);
"Once upon a time ther was a boy called Joe. Joe was a boy and this is the story of Joe. He was having a party in the bath and then a misterius [Mysterious] thing hapend [happened] "Loads of Boxes!" said Joe. The boxes squirted water. Then Joes dad said "Their [they] are my water boxes so you don't tuch [touch] them." Then William Shacespear [Shakespeare] came and said "do you want to read some of my books. He said. "No fanqew [Thank you] said Joe. Then it was night time.
The End.
A few things. He's actually adding direct speech punctuation marks in the right places so is obviously learning something at school. He, blatantly, can't spell, Thank you. but hey, he's introduced William Shakespeare into his own story. Admittedly, he then blanks the finest writer in english language history...
Here, above, is the first page of his Magnus Opus. I am convinced that there is no coincidence between my son choosing to write his letter in orange. There are only two others I know of who use orange ink, Leonardo Da Vinci and of course...his father.
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