Bedtime Stories Writing Tips

by Hillary Homzie

While reading professionally written stories aloud is an essential bedtime ritual, it’s equally important to share your own original stories with your kids. In fact, a study from East Tennessee State shows that both storytelling and story reading are important ways to develop oral language in young children ages 3-5. Reading books improves language complexity, while telling stories improves story comprehension.

 
Below are links to tips I’ve provided to help improve your storytelling:

Hillary Homzie
www.hillaryhomzie.com
Author, Things are Gonna’ Get Ugly (S&S Aladdin Mix)
Author, Alien Clones from Outer Space series (S&S Aladdin)
Author, The Hot List (S&S Aladdin Mix, forthcoming)
Associate Visiting Professor, Hollins University Graduate Program in Children’s Writing and Literature

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