All About English Creative Writing

[pokemon]

i thought of teaching or improving my ds creative writing instead of packing him to enrichment centre,unless it prove helpless then i’ll look around for a centre, save cost too. Any parents or teachers out there whom can share your experiences on teaching creative/compo writing with your own kids/students?

[Brenda10]

Hi pokemon,


I bought “Zoom in Vocabulary for Creative Writing Book 5” for P5 level. Publisher is CASCO. DD has stated using this book since P4 (Book 4) and she finds this book useful. Each chapter starts with a Model Composition and follows by a few Exercises to emphasis the understanding of the power words and also the enrichment in vocabulary. We did not teach her (our English not good) but just help to verify her working against the answers sheet provided. She is not attending any English Enrichment class or tuition the last 4 years except this year we let her attending the English Enrichment class to strengthen her base. Hope the above information useful to you.

[pokemon]

Brenda10:

Hi pokemon,


I bought “Zoom in Vocabulary for Creative Writing Book 5” for P5 level. Publisher is CASCO. DD has stated using this book since P4 (Book 4) and she finds this book useful. Each chapter starts with a Model Composition and follows by a few Exercises to emphasis the understanding of the power words and also the enrichment in vocabulary. We did not teach her (our English not good) but just help to verify her working against the answers sheet provided. She is not attending any English Enrichment class or tuition the last 4 years except this year we let her attending the English Enrichment class to strengthen her base. Hope the above information useful to you.

thanks for sharing. I did look thru popular,and among all the creative writing books, i find a CASCO bk quite useful, but im not sure if it's same title as yours. I guess i will need a guide book to help me thru.

[Michteach]

Hi pokemon,


I find getting the children to pick out writing styles and phrases from storybooks really helped my students in school, I sometimes go to this website, lovereading.co.uk to source out what are the good books, they allow you to download extracts from their books and if I find it good, I get it from bookstores or book suppliers who bring in books not found in stores and use the books to teach the children to write from there.

I found using phrases from storybooks very effective as I am feeding the kids continuously with good vocab and effective writing styles from a wide range of authors.

I could let you know what books are especially good for this if you are interested

[optimistforum]

Hi Pokeman


I would recommend the New First Aid in English Readers (published by Hodder Education). They comprise fun reading exercies and various vocab and grammar exercises to improve writing. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

[livewith_vanilla]

Hi all,


I’m currently a student and I would recommend <i>Creative Writing For Primary 3-6 by Liza Tan</i> if it has not already been recommended.

[kitty2]

livewith_vanilla:

Hi all,


I'm currently a student and I would recommend <i>Creative Writing For Primary 3-6 by Liza Tan</i> if it has not already been recommended.

Hi,

Can you share why you recommend her?Where to find her and her contact.

Thanks

[pokemon]

Michteach:

Hi pokemon,


I find getting the children to pick out writing styles and phrases from storybooks really helped my students in school, I sometimes go to this website, lovereading.co.uk to source out what are the good books, they allow you to download extracts from their books and if I find it good, I get it from bookstores or book suppliers who bring in books not found in stores and use the books to teach the children to write from there.

I found using phrases from storybooks very effective as I am feeding the kids continuously with good vocab and effective writing styles from a wide range of authors.

I could let you know what books are especially good for this if you are interested

Michteach,

Tks, it will be helpful to me. Btw, im also jolting down those good phrases from storybooks and introduce to my son, im sure it will help him to better description in his writing.

[Michteach]

Hi Pokemon,


No prob, btw I MUST tell you about something I just found: the education company that used to come to my school to sell books has now set up a Twitter account and they post phrases from storybooks and also interesting ways to help your child learn vocabulary, spelling, creative writing, science etc...it is so good, now I use what they post to teach my kids and my students love it! Very easy to follow..am so excited, I must tell everyone about it!

You can follow them after you have your own twitter account, the company name is The Alternative Story or you can follow them with their twitter name it is - TAlternativeS, if you have any probs, just pm me..I see if I can help with more detailed instructions..happy twitting!

[Michteach]

Hi Pokemon,


The latest book that I really like is on Time Travel, it is available in Popular, I forgot the author, it is called A Gate in Time and another one that is very good is Conspiracy 365- abt a boy on the run from the bad guys who killed his dad, interesting but more than that the phrases are very good...but the Conspiracy series is only available overseas, you can go to the lovereading website I suggested and check it out :lol: