How to Use a Story Mountain.

How to Use a Story Mountain is a Smartboard presentation explaing how a story is like climbing a mountain, reaching the summit and then climbing down the far side to the conclusion; itbegins at the bottom of the mountain with a character description and a setting. Once the story has begun, something then happens followed by the character encountering a problem. The problem is then resolved and the story finished at the far side of the mountain with an appropriate ending. As well as showing the mountain concept as a theory, a short story is also attached to the mountain to demonstrate exactly how the process works. The Presentation finishes with a lined page for the teacher to write a class story to demonstrate the different aspects of climbing the story mountain.