Tony Wilson has written a couple of songs to help teach kids how to write better. The first song is designed to help young kids remember the 5 basic questions of story writing - who, what, where, when, and why (to learn more about the importance of these questions, take a look at our How to Teach Creative Writing to Kids (and adults) Tutorial. Here is how Tony describes this song:

This is a song that is meant to give younger children an embedded understanding of what is needed in a story to fulfill the reader’s requirements. The verses become increasing more obtuse so that it helps with listening and deductive skills.

The Who, Where, Why, When, Why Song

The second song by Tony relates to using interesting, descriptive adjectives instead of bland words like ‘nice’. Again, in Tony’s own words:

This is a song about using adjectives in character description and avoiding the dreaded ‘nice’ word. I have used an alphabetical list of describing words to get the children to think about multi-adjectival description and not using the same, repetitive ‘big’/'little’/'good’/'bad’/'happy’/’sad ‘.

You can view ‘The NICE Song’ on YouTube

Visit Tony’s Websites

• www.tonywilsonstory.co.uk
• www.tonywilsonstoryteller.co.uk