Exploring Creative Writing with Your Child- As a part of their English lessons at school, children are taught creative writing and how to express themselves clearly through their words. It’s a skill that they will not only need in the subject, but throughout school and in their day-to-day life to produce written answers and communicate with others. To help parents explore creative writing with their children, we thought that we would share some tips below, supplied to us by this boarding school in London.
Creative Writing – Story Writing
Story writing is a great way to get children to explore and practise creative writing. It gives them complete autonomy to write about whatever they like, so they can be as creative and imaginative as they want. It’s their job to make sure that it’s clear, coherent, and well described to help their readers follow along and understand the plot.
Creative Writing – Poetry Writing
Another exercise to get their creative juices flowing is poetry writing. They will need to think a little harder to be poetic and write something meaningful, but the challenge will surely be good practice.
Creative Writing – Writing a Letter to Their Head Teacher
If your child’s passionate about a particular subject or cause at school, letter writing can help them channel their concerns and ideas. They will need to be creative in their choice of words and think carefully about how to persuade their head teacher to implement the changes that they propose.
Creative Writing – Vocabulary
Broadening their vocabulary can help your child to improve the quality of their writing and get themselves across clearly and without being too wordy. To help them grow their bank of words, try implementing story time before bed and encourage them to read more often. Reading is known to be the fastest way to grow vocabulary and can help to improve other aspects of their writing, such as spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Creative Writing – Offer Inspiration
Continuing on from the point above, books can also give children inspiration and an idea as to how they should structure their writing. As well as a beginning, middle and end, they need cliff-hangers and ways to keep the reader interested.
Creative Writing – Fan Mail
zf you’re struggling to get your child on board, this might do the trick. Get them to write to their favourite cartoon character or TV personality, expressing how much they look up to them and what they want for their next move to be. If you have a known PO Box address, you can send this off and if they’re lucky enough to, they may even get a reply.
As with anything regarding your child’s education, don’t hesitate to contact their teachers for some support and inspiration.
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