Collections of children's fictional narratives ('told' stories)

[Gordon, Peter]

Hi Gordon,

You could check the stories on the scholastic website and search for
fiction categories and grade level.  I believe the youngest writers are 12
years old.  The winners are selected from over 250,000 entries nationally
and internationally, so the quality is pretty amazing.

Here's a search on last years winners for fiction.  There are more if you
search for earlier years too.


http://www.artandwriting.org/student-showcase/award-winning-works/#writing=Short+Story&writing=Science+Fiction%2FFantasy&writing=Novel+Writing&writing=Humor&writing=Flash+Fiction&art_portfolio=false&writing_portfolio=false&year=2013&state=All&awards=All&grade=0


Peter Gordon



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gordon Ingram <gordoning at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> Some colleagues and I are hoping to start a project in the nearish future
> which will involve the collection of children's original (fictional)
> narratives as part of the requirements-gathering process for a piece of
> software aimed at helping children improve their creative writing skills. I
> plan to share any resulting corpus with the scientific community.
>
> Does anyone know of a collection of original fictional narratives - i.e.,
> not 'retold' fairytales and the like - which is easily available on the
> internet, for us to do a pilot study on? I am vaguely aware of Ruth Berman
> and Dan Slobin's 'frog stories', some of which I think are available in
> CHILDES, and will have a look at them; but ideally I would like something a
> bit more accessible (i.e. without all the linguistic annotation, as we will
> probably need to strip that out in order to have it analysed by AI) - and
> perhaps something written by kids rather than spoken.
>
> Age range would be about 6-12 - though we could go older if necessary.
> Something on autistic children's production of fictional narratives would
> also be really useful; doesn't have to be a corpus in this case, even an
> article or two would help.
>
> Best regards,
> Gordon
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