Writing For Kids A Workshop for Adults Zarah C. Gagatiga Facilitator

Outline of the Session So, you want to write for children The Child Audience Writing Fiction for Children Workshop! Setting Character Plot The power of imagination

So, you want to write for children

The Child Audience

Writing Fiction for Children

Workshop!

Setting

Character

Plot

The power of imagination

So you want to write for children CHILDREN LITERATURE

CHILDREN

LITERATURE

 It must be well written. Craft is very important as well as the use of language.  It must speak strongly of the Filipino’s culture and identity.  It must be simple, but substantial.  It must be unafraid. And does not apologize for being so.  It must be a story that children can independently read.

 It must be well written. Craft is very important as well as the use of language.

 It must speak strongly of the Filipino’s culture and identity.

 It must be simple, but substantial.

 It must be unafraid. And does not apologize for being so.

 It must be a story that children can independently read.

The Child Audience Needs of the Learning Child Need to love & be loved Need for beauty and order Need to play Need to achieve Need to belong Need to know Material needs * Do you still remember what your childhood was like? Identify events, people and situations in your childhood that still make an impression to you even as you are now an adult.

Needs of the Learning Child

Need to love & be loved

Need for beauty and order

Need to play

Need to achieve

Need to belong

Need to know

Material needs

* Do you still remember

what your childhood was like?

Identify events, people and situations in your childhood that still make an impression to you even as you are now an adult.

Pre-Reading Stage Initial Reading Conformation & Fluency Reading & Learning the New Multiple Viewpoints Construction & Reconstruction - Jean Chall, 1983

Pre-Reading Stage

Initial Reading

Conformation & Fluency

Reading & Learning the New

Multiple Viewpoints

Construction & Reconstruction

- Jean Chall, 1983

Writing Fiction for Children Story Elements Story Grammar 3 Important Things  Character Setting Plot

Story Elements

Story Grammar

3 Important Things

 Character

Setting

Plot

Workshop  Setting From the drawing, create a story line. This would be your first draft. Plot From the graphic organizer, plan your story line  Character Create your character. Use the graphic organizer to help you map your character’s attributes and traits

 Setting

From the drawing, create a story line. This would be your first draft.

Plot

From the graphic organizer, plan your story line

 Character

Create your character. Use the graphic organizer to help you map your character’s attributes and traits

Stretch your Imagination Create a story line from the following images: Be sure that al three are found in your draft.

Create a story line from the following images:

Be sure that al three are found in your draft.