All About English Creative Writing

[Newtandcucumber]

Does anyone know of an O Level essays book that would be useful for the stimuli composition question in Paper 1 of the O Level. Again, can you post a URL please, as from UK and wish to buy.

[Newtandcucumber]

Does anyone know of an O Level essays book that would be useful for the stimuli composition question in Paper 1 of the O Level. Again, can you post a URL please, as from UK and wish to buy.

[Bluestar86]

Joy of Learning 111:

bluegal6:

Hi i am interested to know, for creative writing enrichment, do they give a lot of homework? Usually what kind of homework does a student expected to do for the next lesson?

When I wear my full-time tutor hat, I consult with the parents as to how much homework they want for their child. By default, I usually give a composition every week.

When I wear my part-time teacher hat at a well-known enrichment centre, I give no homework as that is the general policy of the centre. If a child does not complete the work in class, however, I usually ask him/her to complete for homework, although I will not strenuously chase.

Hi Joy of Learning111,

Would you be all to share if there is any structure to teaching primary school children creative writing. It is essential to have many good or bombastic words in the compo to score good grades? Also, do you conduct lessons for primary school children and at which level? Thanks.

[Joy of Learning 111]

Bluestar86:

Hi Joy of Learning111,


Would you be all to share if there is any structure to teaching primary school children creative writing. It is essential to have many good or bombastic words in the compo to score good grades? Also, do you conduct lessons for primary school children and at which level? Thanks.

There are different approaches with some commonalities. For lower primary, the focus is mostly on helping the children to gain basic language skills and proficiency in descriptive writing. For upper primary, the focus is more on narrative; this usually entails a plot mountain with introduction, rising tension, climax and resolution. For both levels, creative writing should be taught as an iterative process with plenty of rewriting and refinement.

Bombastic or purple prose is a big no. Such over-the-top language draws excessive attention to itself often to the point that the reader loses the thread of the content. Creative writing should be content-led, with vocabulary playing a supportive role only. Unfortunately, many tuition centres, teachers and tutors try to disguise their lack of ability to teach creative writing by resorting to the encouragement of bombasticity (I just made up this noun but it seems plausible).

Good words, however, are essential. By ‘good’ I mean words that are appropriate, precise and effective. For instance, it can be as simple as writing ‘wolfed down’ instead of ‘ate quickly’ or ‘sheepish’ instead of ‘embarrassed’.

Yes, I conduct lessons for primary school children at all levels. I will shortly send you a pm.

[bearybeary2000]

mumspaceout:

bearybeary2000:

Keen to sign up my child at this centre set up by ex-teachers. Serena Greenhouse. Any feedback? Think parents' and pupils' feedback is good website so want to know more about their approach.

Hi bearybeary2000

Did you sign up in the end? I went to the centre today and was lucky to see a parent waiting outside the centre. Managed to chat with the parent and found out more about the teachers and the approach. The parent told me that the weekend classes for all subjects are always full. The parent shared that the teachers spend time to prepare their own resources and do not want to have many classes. Only hope is weekday classes which are not many. Wanted to sign up for the current P5 writing class but no vacancy so have to wait for them to start registration and open up another P6 writing class. Keeping my fingers crossed. If no vacancy, have to look for alternative cos next year psle!

I hope this post is not too late. My girl managed to get into the new p6 writing class with Teacher Hayeti. Teacher Serena's class had no more vacancies when I wanted to sign my gal up for the class. Teacher hayeti was an ex English hod who joined Serena greenhouse after resigning.
My gal enjoyed the writing lessons. Said that she learnt a lot of stuff such as foreshadowing, slowing down motion, personification. She improved a lot in writing and her school teacher commented on the improvement. That made my gal very happy, But I think I am most thankful that she now likes writing.

[Alicia_Q]

yhsg:

Hi

Can anyone recommend good English creative writing classes in Jurong East or Jurong West?

Hi there,

You can try The Write Connection's creating writing course.
My daughter has been there for a few months and her grade is really improving.
Their teachers and front desks are also very helpful.

[xueyan]

Hi


Anybody try the online creative writing tuition from Writing Sumurai?

Care to feedback.

Thanks.

[Little Ink Pot]

Hi parents!


You can check out Little Ink Pot, which is a creative writing centre at Commonwealth. It is offering a series of workshops from July to Sept and small group classes throughout the year. http://www.littleinkpot.com/

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[Mama123]

xueyan:

Hi


Anybody try the online creative writing tuition from Writing Sumurai?

Care to feedback.

Thanks.

Keen to know about this tuition centre too. Now they opened another centre at Bugis and keen to know any feedback.

[helloteachermel]

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