Writing of stories: a strategy to enhance the writing process in children

This article exposes how the writing of stories constitutes a strategy to promote the development of the writing process of children. The study has a mixed-method, descriptive scope and got implemented from the analysis of the writings prepared by a group of 28 third-grade students at elementary school from an Educational Institution in Chia, Cundinamarca, Colombia. For this, two didactic units got designed, the purpose was articulate the teaching of logical-verbal processes and short stories writing as a methodological strategy, and an evaluation rubric was developed as an instrument of analysis and monitoring of the process of writing. The implemented writing process was reflected in the improvement of the quality of the texts.