Tips on Writing Stories for Children

  The information I found particularly helpful were the elements that editors, reviewers, and to some extent readers will look for in your story. The elements talked about were the theme, plot, story structure, characters, setting, style and tone.  The information that was similar when analyzing the children's stories were the plot, dialogue and the story line.  The information I found helpful in the article on "Writing Good Dialogue" is to make the dialogue interesting, make it have a purpose and to not make up boring and pointless sentences.  Also the article told us that dialogue shows the relationships between characters which was helpful information.  I think the theme should be part of the rubric. "Is the story easy to read and understandable for young children" should also be part of the rubric.