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Short Story Competition Year 4, 5 and 6

Scholastic Story Starters
Stuck for ideas on how to start your story?
Use this interactive collection of creative writing prompts to get your story started!
Writing with Ursula
Australian Children's Laureate, Ursula Dubosarsky has created writing ideas and activities to help you create fantastic stories.

Activities Grange Hill Library

Grange Hill: Tic Tac Toe Read
Reading challenge! Read 3 books to fit 3 challenges in a row to go into a lucky dip prize draw. Due 18th June.

Prefect Story Time

Wednesday 10th June	Possum Magic
Thursday 11th June	Fox in Socks
Friday 12th June	The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Monday 15th June	Each Peach Pear Plum
Tuesday 16th June	Room on the Broom
Wednesday 17th June	The Gruffalo
Thursday 18th June	Giraffe's Can't Dance
Friday 19th June	The Terrible Plop

Short Story Competition Year 7 and 8

How to build stories
How to build stories.
Matt from Sydney Story Factory will show you how to build your own stories, using tricks to create exciting characters, plots, settings, genres and language.
Scholastic Story Starters
Stuck for ideas on how to start your story?
Use this interactive collection of creative writing prompts to get your story started!
Story Prompts - images
Literacy Shed
Stuck for story ideas? The Literacy Shed features visual resources accompanied by writing suggestions as sources of inspiration to prompt you to create your own fantastic stories.
Story starters - opening lines
Stuck for story ideas? The Literacy Shed lists over 50 opening lines to help get you started.

The Mystery Reader Competition

Mystery Reader 1
Who is the Mystery Reader? Hint: you might see her in the senior school.
Mystery Reader 2
Who is the Mystery Reader? Hint: you might see her in the junior school.
Mystery Reader 3
Who is the Mystery Reader? Hint: you might see her in the senior school.

Word/Play: free digital experiences

The above image is from The Australian Ballet Company's 2019 performance of Cinderella. Stories can be shared on the page, the stage and the screen. Australia's finest cultural institutions are sharing their stories digitally for free - see the links below for recommended experiences.

The Australian Ballet Company Digital Season
The new At Home with Ballet TV digital season will beam premium-quality productions right to your couch for free. The most beloved and inspiring ballets will have a limited two-week season on the streaming platform, Ballet TV.
Melbourne Recital Centre LIVE from MRC
MRC explores the possibilities of digital broadcast to extend our reach beyond the walls of our stellar acoustic spaces for your viewing pleasure.
Melbourne Theatre Company - Conversations
Director and playwright Andrea James, discussing her new play Sunshine Super Girl, ahead of its summer season at Southbank Theatre. You can also explore other content from MTC, including quizzes and videos.
National Gallery of Victoria: NGV Kids at Home
NGV is committed to providing creative experiences for young people and their families. Discover new ways to be creative at home with their online resources.
State Library of Victoria - Keep Exploring the World
Discover digital collections, explore stories and online galleries for exhibitions, watch videos, brush up on research skills, and so much more.
Sydney Opera House Digital Season
A weekly program of unmissable full length performances, live recordings and never-before-seen footage from the Opera House archives.
Sydney Theatre Company STC Virtual
A series of short, personal videos made by some of your favourite actors, directors and writers — a bit of a chat, and a reading from a play, novel or poem.

Short Story Competition Year 9 and 10

Story prompts - images
Literacy Shed
Stuck for story ideas? The Literacy Shed features visual resources accompanied by writing suggestions as sources of inspiration to prompt you to create your own fantastic stories.
How to build stories
How to build stories.
Matt from Sydney Story Factory will show you how to build your own stories, using tricks to create exciting characters, plots, settings, genres and language.
How to write a short story
Short story writer, John Fox, outlines the nine steps to writing a good short story.
Story starters - opening lines
Stuck for story ideas? The Literacy Shed lists over 50 opening lines to help get you started.

Activities d'Houet Library

Year 5 to 7: Tic Tac Toe Read
Reading challenge! Read 3 books to fit 3 challenges in a row to go into a lucky dip prize draw. Due 18th June.
Year 8 to 10: Reading Bingo
Reading challenge! Read 5 books to fit 5 challenges in a row to go into a lucky dip prize draw. Due 18th June.

Capturing History: Your Stories of Life with Lockdown
A Gen Alum invites school students aged 5-18-years-old, from anywhere in the world, to write a short story (in English), fiction or non-fiction, with some reference to the current situation we all are in. Poems and plays are also welcome, and guidelines are given in the link.

Year 7 and 8: workshops with Nova Weetman

Ursula Dubosarsky

Click on the image above to explore the website of Ursula Dubosarsky. On this website, there are activities related to her books, interviews, articles and information about her books and writing career.

Ursula will announce the winners of the LitFest Short Story Competitions on Friday 19th June at 2pm.

About Ursula Dubosarsky
Meet Ursula Dubosarsky, the current Australian Children's Laureate - a national ambassador for reading and Australian children's writing. She is the author of over 60 books and has been writing for more than 30 years. In this video, she talks about her writing career, her work as the laureate and even plays the ukulele!

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LitFest 2020: Word/Play - 10th to 19th June