<div dir="ltr">Hi Gordon,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's a search on last years winners for fiction. There are more if you search for earlier years too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="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">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</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter Gordon</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gordon Ingram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordoning@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordoning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi everyone,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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