stories are important because... they inspire us

Stories are very important to me because I really like to read. My goal is to write an autobiography.
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I'm taking this course so I can make my stories more interesting. This is my first online course ever!!
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I like stories because it helps you to write and spell and its fun too!!
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The reason why I like taken the course because I like to read to the kids especially my godson. So I can get better at it.
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Stories are important to me because It gets my mind motivate and it help me think and tell stories. I am a creative thinker and I like to imagine that I am somewhere far away and I am telling the story about where I am and what I do in my story. I enjoy writing stories. Then reading them to people. I think story writing is important because it makes children imagine as well and think. I also like to draw for me stories. They are fun to create because you’re the one telling the story and it helps me think better in the morning and throughout the day. I love to create stories. I make up stories for me niece and nephew so they can read then to me. They even love when I add pictures to the story.
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Stories are important to me special when I am reading the bible the feeling is so real in my soul it make me felt so good about my Savior. His stories can save the world.
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Stories are very important to me, as a writer, as a reader and more importantly as a listener. I love to hear people telling stories and performing stories. Stories to me are a form of expressing my thoughts and ideas and hearing the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of others. They are powerful teaching tools and an amazing form of entertainment. I like stories, whether it is one I have heard a thousand times or a brand new one. They are important because they tell us who we are. I do like fantasy the most, stories with fantastic or supernatural qualities. Not sure what else to say.
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Stories are important to me because it helps me to focus my mind on reading and it also helps me to become a better reader. Reading is fun and it gets you to open up and get a sense of what is happening.

stories are important because... they connect us

Stories are important because, you can get to know someone better, by knowing were they come from, and how they grow up. It also gives you an opportunity to see throw there eyes on life and how they once saw life as a child.
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I think stories are important to us because we get to learn about different things about are families and its all about the different history with their stories.
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I like personal stories as they are someone's real experiences and you can learn so much about that person and about their history. As they say, "everyone has a story." My father used to tell me stories about his life and I wish I would have documented them, as they could have been passed along to the up-coming generation.
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I also like stories because I like to see people's personal histories preserved.
I like telling stories and listing to stories. Stories tell about our history and where we come from.
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Stories are important because you can go all the way back to the stone age by looking at stories. I remember my Grandmother telling my about the way she grow up by telling my stories about her life. You can learn about the world by the stories people tell you.
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I think that telling our own stories and our family stories is a powerful way to gain confidence in writing and become our own best friends.
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I love telling stories and I love to read. I believe that recording stories on paper for future generations is important or they will be lost.
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Reading makes me relaxed, and I think in the future I would like to write a book about my life story.

stories are important because... they teach us

I would like to become a teacher and I think the best lessons come from stories. If I could become a better storyteller, I think it would make me a better teacher.
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I like stories because they tell us about things.
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Stories are important to me because it is part of our life. Everything, actions, words that are said becomes a story. It is a way to pass on values, information and it is a good way for people to stop making mistakes or repeating their mistakes by hearing other peoples stories.
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The reason why I like stories, because it is very interesting and it teaches you a lot different thing about life.
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To me it is very important to everybody to learn how to read both for the young and very old because stories are very educational.
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stories are important because... they take us to new places

I really think stories are important because it shows you that people know how to read about what ever they want.
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Stories are important to me because I can go to different places and learn about different people. I like all sorts of stories and my favourite stories are by Stephen King. He has a really good imagination.
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I love movies and that’s why stories are important to me. If there were not stories we would not have any movies in the world and well, Do you want to live in a world that has no STAR WARS, GONE WITH THE WIND and THE GODFATHER? What kind of world is that!
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I love all kinds of stories. I love to read and imagine myself being in those far away places that I read about.
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Stories are important because they make people feel emotions. It lets me escape to other worlds and opens up my mind to new things and ideas.
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I love stories when somebody tell it to me it feels like it is entertainment to me
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our stories video and audio

How to make a good story part 1

How to make a good story part 2

Famous people tell their BEST STORY EVER


The Three Little Pigs

Grandma Ri Tells a Snowflake Fairy Story

All the Stories Belong to Anansi the Spider

The legend of Nanabozho

The Sweater by Roch Carrier


Portrait of an Artist

Starry Starry Night

Vincent and the Quilters 1

Vincent and the Quilters 2

Vincent and the Quilters 3

Inspired by the Artist


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A great-nephew asks his great-uncle about the secret of long life

Debra asks her friend Ed about his best tip ever

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