Category: Helicopter Stories

Helicopter Stories offers a safe starting point for children with delayed language development, enabling them to find their voice. In this blog we fol…

Shortly after 4-year-old Chelsea lost her dad to cancer, she told a Helicopter Story. Storytelling gave her the space to explore, process and express …

If you are wondering how to act out a list, or one word Helicopter Story, then this blog will help. We explore how the type of ‘Asks’ or questions…

Helicopter Stories has the power to create communities. As they join together for the acting out their hearts beat as one. This blog reveals the scien…

When children choose to write, they might lie on the floor, or lean against a wall. They may rest the paper on their knees, or on a clipboard, and som…

In part 2 of this blog we explore how even when we scribe verbatim, grammatically correct language can still be modelled during the acting out, and we…

Scribing verbatim is a vital part of Helicopter Stories, capturing children’s unique voices and creativity however they choose to express it. Part 1…

In this blog we dive into the archive to look at the different types of books and paper have used over the years to scribe Helicopter Stories. We expl…

Yesterday I visited a nursery where the Helicopter Stories approach had not been working. The moment I got the email about the setting, I knew…