Starting this week, our class is working on Creative Writing. Our literacy theme matches perfectly entitled "Tell Me a Story". This gave me the perfect opportunity to introduce all-terrain action figures. I did not tell the kids about the action figures before starting their writing, but then suggested they use the action figures to tell their story to their partners. Many of the kids were able to see that they needed to include more action words, events, and character description in their writing in order to make their all-terrain version ACTION PACKED! This was a fun and different activity for the kids and a great intrinsic motivator