Imaginative writing in children’s story writing

We looked for a connection between children’s ability to make up written stories and storytelling in two schools. We wanted to know if this connection was different in each school; children who were good at writing stories were also good at telling stories. In the other school, the connection was less strong. Although there seemed to be a difference between the schools, the researchers could not say for sure that the difference was real. It could have just been a coincidence. The study suggests that the way children are taught and their feelings may affect their ability to make up stories...That child knew something adults forgot: imagination wasn’t just a game. It was a key to travel without moving one’s feet, a superpower to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. And even if no one else saw the blue elf or heard the stars laugh, he kept every adventure in a corner of his mind, where the magic never faded. Because, in the end, imagination was his best friend: faithful, brave and always ready to whisper to him, ＂What if today we turned the broom into a winged horse?＂.