All About English Creative Writing

[janicelyho.02205yahoo.02205com.02205sg]

Hi Chief,

My child is going to P2 next year. Some parents were telling me that it is not necessary to have English tuition or enrichment. All we need to do is to buy some English assesment books and teach them ourselves. We just need to send them for Creative Writing Class.
What is your opinion on this? If the grammar and vocab is not strong would they be able to write good compo? Or when learning to write, the grammar and vocab will be improved?
Thanks

[csc]

Hi all,


I feel that language is more caught than taught. My son has never attended any writing or english enrichment classes but has managed to do well for his English exams from pr 1 to pr 6.

Since young, we have instilled in him the habit of reading daily. He picks up his vocabulary from the books, newspapers and magazines he can get hold of. Going to the library is a weekly family outing. Now , he goes on his own. It helps when he is surrounded by friends, classmates and family members who love to read.

Of course his class teacher helps by assigning newspaper cutting (thrice a wk) as homework where he has to find meanings of new words (pr 3 and 4) and write a review of the article.(pr 5 & 6)

As for composition, he has a resource book of useful phrases from various sources from which he can apply during the writing process. Oh yes, he has to write journals thrice a week too. (all assigned by his teachers). Sometimes, I get him to write his reflections/thoughts when we are holidaying. He has to pack a journal in his luggage. I am doing this to help him find meaning in writing and definitely not with the objective of getting good English marks.

I guide him in the grammar aspect by pointing out certain grammar rules he needs to remember and follow. The school teachers do the drilling and reinforcement (with worksheets).

I usually do the fun part, like buying the book \"Sing to the Dawn\" for the kids after watching the show, getting them to read the Chronicles of Narnia when their interest has already been aroused after watching the movies. I may also point him to an interesting article with a creative writing style. :lol:

It is no wonder English is his favourite subject, one he doesn't have to practise (unlike Maths) and can still do well... :lol:

[meredith84]

Hello,


Perhaps you can contact someone called Julie. She has a book of creative writing for primary 3 - primary 6. If you get interesting, will PM you for details and hope it help…

[Joy]

chiefkiasu


Thanks for your pointers on creative writing.

Just hope to hear some adv from you on this…

Send my girl to a creative writing course lately.She is one person that can write, but lack details type , so tend to loose marks on those area.

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

[yithz]

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Hi All

Does any one have any tips to share on how to get their primary schooler started on developing Creative writing skills? Understand that they have to start writing simple \"composition\" during lower primary?

Ideally - would like to guide him myself without sending him for any classes.

Any suggestions/tips (websites, reference material, books etc) would be most helpful

Thanks!
Yithz

[ChiefKiasu]

yithz:

...Does any one have any tips to share on how to get their primary schooler started on developing Creative writing skills? ...

Much has been said earlier in this thread. Have you checked it out yet?

[Working_Kiasu_Mum]

I have actually send in appl for my boy in learning lab with his results, they called me and said that there is an eng class available for him (i did not send him for any eng enrichment at all in P1). I was contemplating to put him in, but it was a little too ex for me. He is spending me around 600+ a month with other enrichment, so I forgo learning lab and decides to teach myself


I came across this assessment book in popular on zoom in vocab for creative writing from casco. I am not advertising it, but find the book quite good. !Bought book 3 for my p1 boy. A little tough for him, but he learns the good phrases in the book, they give a sample 1compo for 1 pic, then a parallel cloze passage for the kid to fill in the good vocab, then mcq, vocab, fill-in-blank. At the end of the whole exercise, I asked my boy to rewrite the compo using the helping words on his own.
hopefully that helps him

maybe some of you can check out the books 1 to 6

[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?

[yithz]

Thank you all for your useful tips.

[Joy]

yithz:

Thank you all for your useful tips.

Hi yithz

I have pm some infor regarding creative writing.

Have been doing lots of research on it during this school holidays as well as sending gal to try out a writing class.so, manage to get some experience out of it.


Hope it helps.