Digital promotion of narrative writing skills for year 5: Journey to Narrativa

The project for the digital promotion of narrative writing skills aims to design and evaluate a web-based application for promoting narrative writing, particularly in an inclusive context. To this end, an analog concept from the University of Oldenburg ("Journey through Narrativa digital - a world full of stories") is being adapted. A corresponding web application extends the analog concept with a reward system, a read-aloud function, assistance and automatic task differentiation. It also includes tools for the independent creation of complete stories based on the writing process model according to Hayes & Flower (1980). The web application enables peer-supported development, digital exchange and the sending of completed stories. The project was evaluated in terms of its effectiveness on narrative writing skills (pre/post/follow-up control group design).

The project is currently being expanded to integrate the web application into the Levumi learning platform.

The project ran for approximately four and a half years (July 2019 - December 2023) and was funded by the "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" (federal and state governments).

Keywords: digital promotion, narrative writing skills, web application

• Lea Schröder