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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 the things you find in the literary world, this is designed to deliver with a hands-on component because that's the really critical piece of it," Stephan Turnipseed of LEGO Education said. "By building this physical metaphor, they can then discuss aspects of it and then take notes about what they want to do in their story."

Once students are done with their LEGO creations, they then take a computer, take pictures of their creations, and make online, digital comic strips.

Teachers at P.S. 188 say giving students physical and then digital tools makes writing more fun, and makes the children want to participate more often.

"The fact that they get to create something they're going to be writing about makes them more eager to want to write," teacher Evan Mirenberg said. "Some of them didn't know how to get started before this Story Starter kit. They have a perfect jumping point of where they can start their story and the direction it should flow towards."

LEGO has given Story Start kits to 50 schools across the nation to both test it out and cultivate a support group for teachers when it officially goes on sale in January. LEGO says the cost of the set for a class of 20 is about $500.