developing strong writing skills especially when paired with technical abilities like coding all but guarantees your child success in school and beyond but did you know that writing and coding actually go hand in handwhen they learn to code and create digital storytelling projectschildren acquire skills that improve their writingand they have fun in the process coding is new medium for imaginative storytelling writer' tools for telling story include words and sentences coders have access to more open-ended mediumincluding picturesmusicand animation in addition to words the flexibility of programming even allows children to make their story react to audience input