@Faith-and-Hope At least once a week we would do a class writing activity. All characters and settings would be chosen by the students. We would also devise an opening sentence as a group then the kids would go off in small groups and write a narrative. They also needed to include the words we were working with for spelling. Some of the stories were hilarious - some of the kids would act out their stories instead of simply read them. I used to sit on the floor to listen as I knew I would end up there through laughter eventually. At the end, the most imaginative story was 'judged' by the whoile class and they received 2 class rewards each (all the other kids got one). The rewards were either tokens towards their school based reward system or lollies (yes lollies lol) - it was amazing how many chose the tokens. It was often a case of one lolly for them and one for me though lol