A Creative Approach To Teaching Writing

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441118950
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Creative Approach to Teaching Writing written by Steve Bowkett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should children learn to write fluently? What difference will it make to them and the opportunities available to them later on in life? The ability to communicate clearly, accurately and persuasively is a vital life skill. Deficiencies in motivation and thinking skills pervade the challenge of improving children's literacy levels. Get Them Thinking Like Writers! combines practical activities to help children aged 7-11 develop their writing skills, with insights into the attitude that experienced writers apply to their craft. The activities explore different working methods - such as how authors tap into and develop their creativity and how they deal with 'writer's block' - and are supported by strategies for thinking that will develop children's literacy and the way they use language to express their opinions in all subject areas. Steve Bowkett, author, storyteller and education consultant, provides the key concepts and learning benefits of each strategy, along with a series of activities, extension ideas and useful links. Linked resources can be found on the series companion website.

Author : Patrice Baldwin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441170227
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inspiring Writing through Drama written by Patrice Baldwin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring Writing through Drama offers interactive, high-quality drama schemes that will motivate and inspire students aged 7-16 to write for a range of purposes and audiences. Each drama unit offers: • A planning grid flagging the writing opportunities within the drama• Original resources, such as poems, text messages and fragments of graffiti• Individual, group and whole-class writing opportunities, some teacher-led and others guided by the students• Icons to signpost differentiated activities Reading, writing, speaking and listening opportunities are embedded within the drama experiences, and you can follow the schemes or use the texts as a springboard to developing your own drama units and writing opportunities. The authors offer guidance on using drama strategies imaginatively and encourage you to assess the impact on the writing outcomes of your students. This book offers a clear methodology and high-quality practical drama activities that will motivate students to write purposefully within compelling imaginary contexts.

Author : Peter Burrows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472909038
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Creative Approach to Teaching Grammar written by Peter Burrows and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a whole school approach to the teaching of grammar and punctuation that is fully matched to the demands of the English grammar and punctuation test and the new curriculum. With the shift towards elegant, well-constructed sentences, it offers the busy teacher three simple steps to motivate and engage children, through: • explicit teaching and modelling; • over forty practical games and activities; • application and improvement within editing and proof reading. This book draws on recent research but also is based on many years of classroom practice and a number of case studies. Practical examples develop teachers' understanding of grammatical terms and progression and show how it is possible to have a significant impact on vocabulary, sentence structure and children's writing in general. A balance is found where skills are explicitly taught but within the context of an exciting and interesting curriculum.

Author : Wallace Earle Stegner
Publisher : Montgomery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Teaching of Creative Writing written by Wallace Earle Stegner and published by Montgomery. This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America's finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.

Author : Patrick T. Randolph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942799863
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Ways in Creative Writing written by Patrick T. Randolph and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative writing offers multiple genres that give your ELs an opportunity to practice many types of writing skills. Poetry, prose, dialogue, and creative non-fiction are just a few of the myriad styles, forms, and skills that can help ELs broaden their understanding of what writing is all about, while making them better writers. But most of all, creative writing is fun! The new volume offers over 95 creative activities.

Author : David M. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word Weaving written by David M. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook introducing the essential nature of poetry and providing sample poems and suggestions for the writing of poetry.

Author : Steve Bowkett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168044
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Creative Approach to Teaching Writing written by Steve Bowkett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should children learn to write fluently? What difference will it make to them and the opportunities available to them later on in life? The ability to communicate clearly, accurately and persuasively is a vital life skill. Deficiencies in motivation and thinking skills pervade the challenge of improving children's literacy levels. Get Them Thinking Like Writers! combines practical activities to help children aged 7-11 develop their writing skills, with insights into the attitude that experienced writers apply to their craft. The activities explore different working methods - such as how authors tap into and develop their creativity and how they deal with 'writer's block' - and are supported by strategies for thinking that will develop children's literacy and the way they use language to express their opinions in all subject areas. Steve Bowkett, author, storyteller and education consultant, provides the key concepts and learning benefits of each strategy, along with a series of activities, extension ideas and useful links. Linked resources can be found on the series companion website.

Author : Kari Ellen Gade
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732447
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Old Norse "Dróttkvætt" Poetry written by Kari Ellen Gade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the mystery of the origins of the drottkvett and its eventual demise in the fourteenth century.

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Writing Creatively written by David Starkey and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Writing Creatively represents a challenge to conventional notions of genre. It seeks to break down the artificial, antiquated barriers between "creative" and "academic" writing, making the writing classroom experience a more imaginative one. Teaching Writing Creatively features many of the most respected names in composition-instructors with long, successful histories of providing teachers with functional yet inventive methods of teaching writing. The collection begins with articles that assert that all good writing must be, in some important sense, "creative." These contributors offer accounts of the transformation of their composition classrooms; essays that demonstrate that good student writing is only marginally about genre; and a critique of the creative writing workshop as a model for the composition class. Part II offers a variety of ways to approach the teaching of writing as a creative endeavor. It includes articles on helping students better understand their own writing processes and suggestions on alternative composing strategies and their classroom applications. The contributors to the final section offer a variety of new approaches to creative writing that can be successfully applied to expository writing courses as well. Student-centered and process-oriented, Teaching Writing Creatively is a book writing instructors will find immediately useful-particularly composition instructors who feel hemmed in by the conventional expectations of writing courses and creative writing instructors looking to take advantage of the latest innovations in composition studies.

Author : Kathryn Jane Bell
Publisher : Pippin Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780887510991
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Heart written by Kathryn Jane Bell and published by Pippin Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be frustrating, demoralising even, to be too afraid or intimidated to express either in speech or in writing what is going on in one's mind. It's one thing to write enough to complete a class assignment or to please a teacher; it's another to really use and take ownership of one's language, and express oneself from one's heart. The main goal of From the Heart is to encourage just that. The exercises are designed to give students the opportunity to develop language skills while at the same time using their own, individual creative talents. The activities were selected with several goals in mind: To help students explore their own creativity in a supportive environment; To help them discover that inspiration for writing is everywhere; To build their confidence in voicing their own heartfelt ideas; To provide abundant opportunities to practice their newly acquired skills; To help them feel comfortable about getting -- and giving -- feedback that improves writing. As they achieve these goals, they will find themselves more confident and comfortable with their new language, producing texts that are much more interesting than standard classroom fare, and really writing from their hearts.