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I have found the following websites useful in my secondary school English classroom as they provide models of diverse ways of sharing personal stories, as well as explicit teaching resources on traditional and modern forms of storytelling.

The danger of a single story from YouTube

Great dialogue animator!

All of us - adults, teens, and children - enjoy a scary chill:  the anticipation of a creaking door opening in slow motion, waiting for someone - or something - to walk through, and then a wind gust slamming that door shut.  BANG!  What better time of year to indulge in stories that make our spines tingle than Halloween?  So bring them on - ghosts and ghouls, wizards and witches, haunted houses and black magic.

Booktalking is one of the most effective way to get kids reading.  Entice young readers to open a book … engage their interest … invite them into a story.

Here are two tools that elementary school students can use to create stories prompted by drawings.