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Then come back here and refresh the page. Second through fifth
graders at P.S. 188 in Coney Island, Brooklyn are playing with
LEGOs in school as part of their writing curriculum. Thanks to a
program called "LEGO Education Story Starter," the building
blocks help create a story. Students first spin a wheel to
determine who, when and where the story will take place and be
about. They then start to form the story in their head while
building it out of LEGOs. Once the pieces are all in place on
the LEGO board, the theory is that pieces will fall more easily
into place when it comes time to actually write the story. "All
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