Tips for teachers/parents

• Keep a special book for each player to write their “Jimmy” stories in. Nice pens or pencils would help too.
• Particularly promising stories could be edited and published in a class newsletter, but don’t mention that until well after the game. Players will write better if they know it’s a quick game with no pressure.
• Groups of up to six can work, but with any more players, there will be too much reading aloud and not enough writing.
• Everyone should be encouraged to share their writing. If reading aloud is too hard, work out another way to share.
• A whole class could respond to the same cards, and write at the same time. This could encourage different interpretation of the cards.
• Players should be encouraged to finish their story properly.