Writing a book is hard...

...but telling a story should be easy.

I was cleaning up some of my son's 1st grade workpapers when I came across one called a graphic organizer. It has headings on the left side then nice big rectangular blocks to fill in on the right.

Here's what Zac filled in:
TITLE- The Hungry Caterpillar
SETTING- Outside
PROBLEM- He's hungry
EVENT 1- ate an apple
EVENT 2- ate two pears
EVENT 3- ate 3 strawberries
EVENT 4- got a stomach ache
EVENT 5- made a cocoon
SOLUTION- He turned into a butterfly because he ate and got big and strong

Pretty humbling, huh? Storytelling is so simple a child can do it...
Now let's see those six year-olds get published.