Abstract
In the article, the author presents results of study of primary school age children's narratives and children's abilities to develop a plot twist. The study follows work of Stein and Albro who analysed children's abilities to follow a given aim in a story.
Our analysis was conducted on a sample of 315 narratives which children had created on a basis of demand to tell a fairy tale. While in 1 st grade 40 % of children's narratives already contained a plot twist with a denouement, in 5 th grade this number increased to only 70 %.
We also noticed a difference between boys' and girls' narratives - in our sample, girls on average were able to create a plot twist sooner than boys; however, in 5 th grade such difference is no longer apparent. Our expectations were that at the end of primary school education, almost all children should be able to create a plot twist and lead it to a denouement.
We believe that this result should be an impulse to systematically integrate story creation into education.