This ethnographic study explores the ways that third grade children "story" in school through an expanded writers' workshop enhanced with making and filmmaking. This immersive maker literacies workshop will examine how children use a makerspace to imagine, create, play, and share their own "made" characters and create films to expand narratives about their characters' original stories. This study builds on a pilot study conducted in 2019 with the same teacher and in the same school. During this year-long post, particular attention was paid to the discourses, actions, talk, participation, collaboration, and social interactions that make up the taken-for-granted practices during composition time. This analysis is interested in what happens when third graders are encouraged to use their "at home" literacies and strengths to compose through maker literacies. New contributions are needed to better understand maker literacies in lower elementary school settings, and this study attempts to fill this gap. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]