Tell Your Story!

Stories are all around us! You have the story of your life inside your head, ready to be shared. This kit will teach you about the various ways people document their lives and features activities like zine making and letter writing to help you tell your own stories.

This kit is recommended for children in grades 3-5 and includes:

• The chapter book Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani, a novel told through letters
• Telling Our Stories Book List
• An envelope and stamp to send a letter of your own
• Writing prompts and activities to start telling and sharing your own stories.
  • Tell Your Story: Cover Page, opens a new window
  • Tell You Story: Writing Prompts, opens a new window
  • Tell Your Story: Writing Letters, opens a new window
  • Tell Your Story: Writing to Yourself, opens a new window

The Tell Your Story Read. Make. Do. kit is made possible with funds from the Friends of the Ramsey County Libraries.