Materials: three ring binder, recording form and hole punch

Purpose: To sustain a cumulative and collaborative piece of creative writing.

How It Looks: This center is like an on going class project. The first writer begins the story without limitations or rules, except the story must be appropriate for school and neatly written. The next writer(s) reads the previous piece and continues the story in a logical, sequential manner. As children complete pages, they place them in the centers basket to be shared with the teacher. The teacher then adds the story to the binder so the next child at the center begins to write where the last child left off.