All About English Creative Writing

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CKS, :lol: Love the story. Very creative indeed!

[Joy]

Chiefkiasu


Great piece of work.I will show it to my p3 girls.Just check, if this creative writing is not about a fairy tales story but a four pic composition type, how can we show the child the content building part.My girl is able to read and write story well but not the real life type of creative writing and most of all failed to expand.Probably she lacks the exposure and indepth thinking and I know she needs help, hope to hear your advice.

Thanks

[ChiefKiasu]

Joy:

...In this writing class, teacher will give her structure with detials for a piece of compo, and phrases.So, she merely connect and there goes her creative writing...I think that is not right.Its true that it has guided her on the flow of compo, but her writing style is totally gone...Do you think there is a way that I can help her , with the proper structure given by the class?


In sum,that is how can I use the structure as a guide and yet able to encourage her to write with her own style...instead of filling up the blank and finished a creative writing...thanks

Hi Joy, it would appear that you are hoping for your girl to find her own style of writing. That's a good thing, but it cannot be rushed. As they say Rome was not built in a single day.

I think the enrichment course itself is not doing anything wrong with the method you described. While the method is rather trite, the constant drills will result in students doing better in Primary school composition simply by learning the flow of thought offered by the authors of the passages. This is an efficient method for training children to learn to organize their thoughts and get better grades for composition, but it won't make them into Pulitzer prize winners.

Don't worry so much about having your child lose her \"style\", because she is unlikely to have any to begin with, at her age. Style is assimilated from reading material from a multitude of sources, which also help build up the child's knowledge base of facts which she can apply. As she grows older and become more expository in her thoughts, she will automatically develop her own style.

One of the things which you can do is to point out someone or something that you see when you are outside with your child and get your child to verbally
1. describe the person to you words - eg. what the person looks like, what he/she is wearing, and his/her disposition (hurried, happy, sad, angry, etc).

2. make up a story about why the person is at that particular place or time - eg. rushing to work, visiting a friend, going shopping, etc.

If you do this constantly, the child will start to become more observant and be able to fluently collect her thoughts and become more descriptive in her compositions and creative writing.

[ChiefKiasu]

ksmama:

Excellent!! A*

Cannot lah... reasons:
1. Full of grammatical errors.
2. Inconsistent use of past and present tense.
3. Singlish not allowed.

[Working_Kiasu_Mum]

jedamum:

Working_Kiasu_Mum:

I came across this assessment book in popular on zoom in vocab for creative writing from casco.

is that the title of the book?

yes. But it's a little tough finding the book in the heaps of assess in the bookstore. I think books 1 and 2 may not be published yet.

[corneyAmber]

ChiefKiasu:

ksmama:

Excellent!! A*

Cannot lah... reasons:
1. Full of grammatical errors.
2. Inconsistent use of past and present tense.
3. Singlish not allowed.

Wah....you not only ChiefKS, also Chief Entertainment Officer (CEO) of Ministry of Entertainment (MOE)...(its high time they have a fusion of private and public ideas) Laughter's the best medicine, I had my dose today from yr RRH story.... kakaka

[ChiefKiasu]

Joy:

Chiefkiasu


Great piece of work.I will show it to my p3 girls.Just check, if this creative writing is not about a fairy tales story but a four pic composition type, how can we show the child the content building part.My girl is able to read and write story well but not the real life type of creative writing and most of all failed to expand.Probably she lacks the exposure and indepth thinking and I know she needs help, hope to hear your advice.

Thanks

Hi Joy, I'm not sure if my piece is really fit for the perusal of children under 21 yo, but I suppose it is a good way of telling children how NOT to write for their compositions.

Why not post an example of a 4-tile picture composition, along with her writing on it, and let us decide if your child really needs \"help\"?

[Joy]

Hi Chiefks


I will try to post once she gets hold of her redo compo and the first draft(guided by the centre)that is being remarked by the teacher.thanks


rgds
Joy

ChiefKiasu:

Joy:

Chiefkiasu

Great piece of work.I will show it to my p3 girls.Just check, if this creative writing is not about a fairy tales story but a four pic composition type, how can we show the child the content building part.My girl is able to read and write story well but not the real life type of creative writing and most of all failed to expand.Probably she lacks the exposure and indepth thinking and I know she needs help, hope to hear your advice.

Thanks

Hi Joy, I'm not sure if my piece is really fit for the perusal of children under 21 yo, but I suppose it is a good way of telling children how NOT to write for their compositions.

Why not post an example of a 4-tile picture composition, along with her writing on it, and let us decide if your child really needs \"help\"?

[snowyqueen]

ChiefKiasu:

There is a difference between learning-to-write (which focuses on grammar and punctuation) and writing-to-learn (which focuses on using the written language for effective communication). During the first 3 years of Primary school, almost all teachers focus on learning-to-write. A child that has unbridled imagination will likely score poorly during these years if he/she does not already have a good foundation of standard English. If this is that case, a creative writing class is unlikely to help the child do better in composition tests.

Dear Chief,

I wish to express special thanks to you for enlightening me on my concern. Previously I am at loss of what kind of english course should I enrol my gal to and your input had certainly help me to think carefully of my objective.

My objective is to get my gal to start on writing decent english composition and creative writing is something not suitable for her yet.

Finally I chose to enrol her in Just Education and she had been there for two months now. I can say that I am very pleased with the results because they had english composition writing every alternate week though it is a English course and they covered other things like grammar, vocab and comprehension etc.

The mix and match sentences material provided by the centre help my gal to expose to the use of different way of writing a composition. Though she probably still needs to improve on the language especially on the grammars and sentences construction but she can write at least 120 words everytime I give her a new topic.

I feel that she must at least be able to come out with the basic body of the composition before she can be taught to be creative in her writing. At the moment, I only want her to be able to meet the schcool requirement of composition writing. The material provided by the tuition centre is adequate and good enough for her to meet the requirement.

One \"conventional\" method is still practice makes perfect :D.

[vyvlim]

There is a company that conducts Creative Writing in schools only. The students pay through Edusave. I have heard it is a fantastic programme and many students have benefited from it. My niece is from PLMGS and after attending this programme ( is a one year programme), her compo writing has improved tremendously. It is no longer boring and she is able to write exciting stories applying the skills she mastered from the programme.