Helpful Hints!

• The contest is designed to promote creativity in an academic format and to encourage writing skills at an early grade level. 

• Through preparation for the contest, students in second grade will be able to evaluate their own writing and the writing of others.

• Contestants will be given a prompt with several captioned pictures. 

• From these pictures, the students will create an original story based on their selections in 30 minutes. 

• The stories must contain at least one of the pictured items, but it is not required that all items on the page be included.