As a new teacher in P1 I am delighted to have found this video and the helicopter stories approach. I'm very excited to try it out next term and see how it supports literacy development for the children in my class. Thank you!

Wonderful. I read this book a few months ago and tried it for the first time today with a class of four- and five-year-olds. There were many things I suddenly realized that I didn't understand about the method, like how exactly to write what's being dictated, for instance. (Go one sentence at a time). The techniques shown in this video will be very useful to me the next time I try it. I just wish the other adults in the room were as excited about this valuable experience as you were!