Story Writer's Helper
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Type how you think the word sounds — we'll find the real spelling for you
Broken into sounds:
Type a word — we'll split it into beats to help you spell it. Click each beat to hear it!
👆 Click any beat to hear it · 🥁 Tap the drum pad to count your own beats
Say the word out loud and tap once for each beat you hear
tap here — one tap per beat
Click a word to copy it. Use these in your writing!
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Stuck on how to start? Click a frame to drop it into your writing pad
Paste or type any text — then hit play to hear it read aloud. Ask yourself: does it make sense? does it sound right?
After listening, ask yourself these three questions:
Why creative writing is hard for SEND children
Creative writing requires a child to simultaneously generate ideas, hold them in working memory, organise them into a sequence, translate them into sentences, manage spelling and punctuation, and produce legible text — all at the same time. For children with dyslexia, ADHD or autism, any one of those steps can become a bottleneck that stops everything else. The child who has a rich imagination and vivid ideas may produce almost nothing on the page because the physical and cognitive demands of writing overwhelm the creative part entirely.
How structured prompts unlock creativity
Giving a child a starting point — a character, a setting, a problem to solve — removes the paralysis of the blank page. Many children with ADHD and autism are highly creative but need an external structure to channel that creativity. Story prompts do not constrain imagination; they provide the scaffolding that lets imagination work within a manageable framework. Once the child has a character and a problem, the story often flows naturally in a way it never would from "write a story about anything".
How to use this tool
Use the character builder to create your hero, the setting picker to choose a world, and the plot helper to find a problem and a resolution. Then write in the distraction-free writing space — no alerts, no sidebars, just the story. For children who find typing difficult, dictate to a parent who types while the child composes aloud. The goal is to get the ideas out — editing comes later.
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