This document provides teaching strategies for creative writing. It discusses various pre-writing techniques like warm-up writing, brainstorming, mind mapping, and multi-dimensional writing to help students generate ideas. It also covers strategies for drafting stories, including transformation activities where students rewrite endings or change perspectives of characters. The goal is to help students think creatively and view topics from different angles to make their writing more imaginative.
3. Questions for Discussion
• Look at the ceramic jar. What steps
would you need to go through to create
something like this from a lump of clay?
• How do you think this is similar to
writing an essay?
5. Purpose
✓Communicate with each other
✓Record information
✓Enhance oral development
✓Reinforce vocabulary and Language
structure
✓Present ideas, information and
feelings
✓Demonstrate ones creativity and
critical thinking
✓Inform ,influence and entertain
8. What do we need to teach ?
✓Using the basic conventions of
English
✓Presenting Information Ideas
and feelings coherently and
clearly
9. Stages Of Writing
In Primary School learners go
through four stages of writing to
develop their writing skill.
✓Copying
✓Guided writing
✓Controlled Writing
✓Independent Writing
10. Development of writing skills
through Task Based Activities
✓Have
✓Have
a context
a purpose
✓Involve learners in thinking and doing
✓Learners draw up their own framework
of knowledge and skills.
✓Purposeful activities lead to a product.
11. Approaches to writing
✓Parallel Writing
✓Modeled writing
✓Shared and Interactive Writing
✓Process Writing
✓Experiential Writing
✓Creative Writing …….etc
13. What Is Creative Writing
Definition:
Creative Writing expresses the writers
thoughts and feeling in an imaginative
often unique and poetic way. Creative
writing is guided more by the writers
need to express feelings and ideas than
by the restrictive demands of factual
and logical progression of expository
writing
14. What Is Creativity
Definitions:
✓Ability to produce original ideas.
✓The result of a complex of
cognitive skills, abilities,
personality factors ,motivation
and strategies.
16. Teachers’ can develop learners
creativity by:
✓Choose Interesting topics.
✓Go beyond given information
✓Give time to think
✓Reward creative efforts
✓Value their creative attributes
✓ Teach them creative
thinking techniques
✓ Create a climate conducive
to creativity
17. Conducive Environment for
developing learners creativity
✓Provide challenges
✓Appreciate individuality
✓Encourage open discussion
✓Absence of conflicts
✓Allow time to think
✓Encourage confidence and willingness
to take risk
✓Appreciate and support ideas
✓Respect the novel and unusual
19. Activity Sheet
Three Minute Fast Write:
Write anything that you can
remember from the Hare and the
Tortoise.
1,2,3 ……...go !!!!!!!
20. The Tortoise And The Hare
r
hare tortoise slow grass white lazy stupid clever Sunny
un competition sleep hot tired sad cry
surprised happy cry wake-up sunny unhappy sleep
Setting .
Who when where Event Problems Resolutions
Green tortoise
White rabbit
Grass hot sunny
Running
competition
Slow fast lazy
Stupid clever
sleep hot tired
work hard
a long time
Wake-up win
lose happy
unhappy
Surprised cry
Swimming
competition
Cant swim clever
Jump easy proud
find a bridge
enjoying
Arrive first
rest laugh
silly proud
22. Why Use Fast Write
✓A daily fluency exercise.
✓ First thought on a starting
point are usually the most
powerful and original ones.
✓ Helps students get started on
an assignment
Remember: at this stage accuracy is not emphasized
23. Thematic Tree
✓Start with a theme
✓Reflect on the theme
✓Develop sub themes
✓Brainstorm relevant themes
24. Theme : My House
Rooms in my house
Things to put in each room
Things to do in each room
26. Now write about the dream house
✓How many rooms do you want
✓Besides the living room, bedroom,
washroom, drawing room dining room
do you want any other rooms
✓What do you want to put in those
rooms.
✓What do you want to do in those
rooms
✓Who do want to live with
27. Why Use Thematic Tree
✓Encourages students to think
of different perspectives
✓builds students' flexibility
✓generates more idea
✓Helps students’ structure their
writing
28. Multi-dimensional writing
➢ A car accident has occurred
injuring several people
➢ Teachers and students discuss
how it could have been averted
➢ Students imagine that they are
one of the following characters
and write an account
1. Driver
2. Passenger
3. Pedestrian
29. Activity Sheet
Imagine you are the
✓Principal/Headmistress
✓Librarian
✓Head Girl/ Boy
✓Teachers.
Write about any one particular
day.
30. ……Other Examples
✓You are Papa Bear. Write
rules for Goldie Locks to help
her become a better girl.
✓ You are the King of the
forest. Write rules for
different animals to follow
33. Brainstorming and Mind
Mapping
✓Put the word ‘Future’ on the board
✓ Brainstorm words related to
your future
✓ Now focus on your education
family and career
✓ Group all the words under
these three sub themes and
write a composition
34. Example Map
My future
family
Raise healthy,
happy children Stay close
to my
family
Make them
a priority
Education
work
Eventually
get a PhD
Never stop
learning
Instill a love
of education
in my children
Learn to love
whatever work
I am doing
Use the skills I
have learned in as
many ways as
possible
Stay at home
while raising
children
35. Why Use Brainstorming and
Mind Mapping
✓Brainstorming: Excellent way of
creating many new ideas
✓Helps students break out of their
thinking patterns into new ways of
looking at things.
✓Mind Map: Used for arranging and
developing ideas.
✓A good format for reviewing ideas
40. Language Help
The goats were
naughty
Always hit the
Troll
Ate all the
grassland
Goats kicked Trolls Mother. She fell
into the river and died
No one to look after the troll.
Troll lonely and hungry
Hated the goats
Goats ate all
the grass.
No more grass
land and trees
all the animals
hungry
Reasons
41. Activity:Imagine you are….
➢Imagine you are the three goats.
Use your 5 senses to think and
write about how nice the
grassland is.
➢See
▪Smell
▪Touch
▪Hear
▪Taste
42. Sample
When I arrived at the grassland I
saw-----------. I smelt
and it was
. I
touched---------. I could
hear---------- . Finally I ate
the grass and it
tasted .
43. Character Empathy
➢Write for the characters and express
how they feel. (letter, diary)
Examples:
➢Write about the Baby Bears feeling
when he saw his broken chair. (letter)
➢Write how Cinderella felt after
the Ball dance. (diary)
44. Imagination
IF…………
Create anew ending based on assumption
-If the little Billy Goat Gruff could not
cross the bridge------
Your turn. Create a new ending
1 2 3 GO………!!!!!
45. Language Help
Sample
New endings
Troll took Billy Home.
Billy was very hungry.
There was no food
so
Billy dies of
starvation
The two brother goats could not find l
Little Billy
They were sad
They went back to the Bridge
The Brothers fought with the Troll
and brought Little Billy back home
Troll took him
home
Troll and Billy
become
good friends.
Troll takes care of
Billy
Lived happily ever
after
