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Creative writing ppt for grades 2-5.pptx
- 1. Develop creative writingin a range of different genres of fiction
- 2. Do you likereading/listening to stories? Which is your favorite story? Briefly narrate it.
- 3. Can you guessthe genre of your favorite story? • Adventure • Fantasy • Horror • Humor • Mystery • Sports
- 4. Do you wantto play a game? Instructions: Here are a few incomplete extracts related to certain fictions. The students have to complete the scenario related to the genre mentioned below it. All the instances are completely based on imagination, so remember to be as imaginative as possible. The student get 60 seconds to think and answer. The one who provides best answer within the time limit will win. All the best!
- 5. The two brotherswere playing hide and seek while their parents were away. As the older brother was counting, the younger one started rushing, looking for a place to hide. The older brother searched everywhere and even called out to him, but he couldn’t find his brother. He heard a creaky sound from the cupboard. He opened the cupboard, and………………………………… Complete the given story Genre: Horror
- 6. Complete the givenstory Abandoned by their stepmother in the forest, both children get hungry and eat a real gingerbread cottage. The witch who lives in that cottage catches them and…….. Genre: Fantasy
- 7. Complete the givenstory An elf loved his pet ant. He tried to feed him the best he could. The ant gobbled whatever the elf would feed him. As time passed and as the ant kept gobbling, it got bigger and bigger till he couldn't fit in the room. Then, the elf gave the ant to the zoo………… Genre: Humor
- 8. Did you enjoythe game? Now, let’s read an interesting story, that is about a poor boy and magical beans Are you excited? Then let’s start!
- 9. JACK AND THEBEANSTALK Once upon a time there was a boy called Jack. He lived with his mother. They were very poor. All they had was a cow. One morning, Jack’s mother told Jack to take their cow to market and sell her. On the way, Jack met a man. He gave Jack some magic beans for the cow. Jack took the beans and went back home. When Jack’s mother saw the beans she was very angry. She threw the beans out of the window.
- 10. The next morning,Jack looked out of the window. There was a giant beanstalk. He went outside and started to climb the beanstalk. He climbed up to the sky through the clouds. Jack saw a beautiful castle. He went inside. Jack heard a voice. ‘Fee, fi, fo, fum!’ Jack ran into a cupboard. An enormous giant came into the room and sat down. On the table there was a hen and a golden harp. ‘Lay!’ said the giant. The hen laid an egg. It was made of gold. ‘Sing!’ said the giant. The harp began tossing. Soon the giant was asleep.
- 11. Jack jumped outof the cupboard. He took the hen and the harp. Suddenly, the harp sang, ‘Help, master!’ The giant woke up and shouted, ‘Fee, fi, fo, fum!’ Jack ran and started climbing down the beanstalk. The giant came down after him. Jack shouted, ‘Mother! Help!’ Jack’s mother took an axe and chopped down the beanstalk. The giant fell and crashed to the ground. Nobody ever saw him again. With the golden eggs and the magic harp, Jack and his mother lived happily ever after.
- 12. Now let’s discussthe story! Can you guess the genre of this story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’? • Adventure • Fantasy • Horror • Humor • Mystery • Sports
- 13. Yes! It isFANTASY “Fantasy” refers to a genre that involves imagination. It usually contains magic, supernatural creatures, and otherworldly settings.
- 14. Have you everthought what a story is made up of? Do you want to write an interesting fantasy story of your own? That’s great news! Now let’s learn 5 magic tricks to create our own magical story!
- 15. Character • Who shouldplay the main part of your story? (any person or animal) • Can you describe his/her qualities like what magic do they have? • Any other/secondary characters that you would like to include?
- 16. Setting • Where andwhen is the story happening? What type of magical place is it? • What is the location and the time in which the characters exist? • Setting of a story can be imaginary or inspired from a real location.
- 17. Plot • What isgoing to happen in your story? How are you going to make it fantasy related? • Let’s think of beginning, middle and ending pointers for your story. • We should make our plot as interesting as possible.
- 18. Challenge • What problemdoes your character face in the story? • What ‘twist’ would you like to give to your story to make it interesting? • Is there any ‘surprise’ element that you would like to include towards the end of the story?
- 19. Theme • What shouldthe readers understand from your story? • What is the moral or lesson learned from your story?
- 20. Let’s give around of applause to your excellent imagination! Now is the time to convert your imagination into words! With the help of the points you have framed, it’s time to write your own story!
- 21. We can’t waitto listen to your interesting story now! WOW! What an amazing story it was! I am sure you will be a wonderful story writer very soon!
- 22. Summary In todays class, we learnt: • Reading and understanding the meaning of different genres • Reading and understanding fiction genre- fantasy story • The five magical elements of story writing- Character, Setting, Plot, Challenge and Theme • Creating a wonderful story of our own using the 5 elements
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Editor's Notes
- #1 Class can be started by telling importance of creative writing, improving writing skills and explaining the ‘fiction’ genre by giving some examples of fictional stories.
- #2 Teacher should pique the student’s interest in stories by asking more relevant questions about their favorite story. Even if the student denies having interest in reading stories, the teacher can initiate the topic by asking about any story that the student has heard or learnt in his school curriculum.
- #3 Teacher should explain the meaning of the word ‘genre’. Each and every genre type should be briefly explained by the teacher with relevant examples. Then the student could be guided to think and relate his favorite story to a specific genre.
- #4 The teacher should explain the rules and start the game by encouraging discipline and considering the time limit.
- #5 Best answers should be encouraged
- #6 Best answers should be encouraged
- #7 Best answers should be encouraged
- #8 Appreciate the student for game played earlier, encourage them even if the performance was not so good. The teacher must try to trigger excitement within the student for the upcoming story. The student shall be given chances to guess the title of the related story.
- #9 The teacher should read the story with proper voice modulation, pronunciation and expressions. The meaning of the difficult words should be explained. The student must be given chance to read if eagerness is expressed by them or to draw their attention.
- #10 The teacher should read the story with proper voice modulation, pronunciation and expressions. The meaning of the difficult words should be explained. The student must be given chance to read if eagerness is expressed by them or to draw their attention.
- #11 The teacher should read the story with proper voice modulation, pronunciation and expressions. The meaning of the difficult words should be explained. The student must be given chance to read if eagerness is expressed by them or to draw their attention.
- #12 The teacher should encourage the student to elaborate their understanding of the story along with its moral. Ask the student to think back to the genres discussed earlier and which one them fits this story.
- #13 The teacher should explain the meaning of ‘fantasy’ genre to the students. Relevant examples like fairies, dragons, magical wand etc. can also be related to fantasy based stories.
- #14 The teacher should help the students to relate upcoming points with the story they read in the previous slides. Encourage them to implement the same for the story they are going to create.
- #15 The teacher should explain that character is like hero/heroine of a movie and the story revolves around them. After asking relevant questions about the character, the teacher should help the student to note down the points.
- #16 The teacher should encourage the student to find a setting suitable to their character’s description. Help the student to note down the points.
- #17 The teacher can help the students to create a complete and sensible plot by giving them relevant ideas and inputs for their story. Help the students to note important points.
- #18 The teacher should introduce terms like ‘twist’, ‘suspense’, and ‘climax’ along with their meanings. Ask relevant questions and help the students to note down points.
- #19 The teacher should guide the students to understand that ‘theme’ is the main idea of the story. They should encourage a positive message to be conveyed to the readers. Help the students to note the points.
- #20 The teacher should recall the points discussed earlier and summarize the student’s story idea as well. Give 5 to 7 minutes to the student to write their own story with the help of story layout created earlier with the teacher’s help.
- #21 The teacher should attentively listen to the student’s story with humble expressions. At the end provide them a constructive feedback by appreciating their good points and suggesting them scope of improvements. The overall performance should be gradually appreciated by the teacher as it helps to boost the student’s morale.
- #22 The teacher should summarize the lesson and important points