All About English Creative Writing

[Liew Nga Wing]

tracychew\" post_id=\"2050304\" time=\"1638433477\" user_id=\"143434:

I have to agree with the exam bits.. I started out wanting my kids to explore \"free\" writing but once the PSLE year came it was all exam preparation. Thank god those days are over. Until today she still shudders at the thought of compo writing.. But she still enjoys journaling and I see that her writing there is quite good, without the exam pressure.

Oops mummy is not supposed to peek at her diary haha..

Do you kids know that you peek at their diary?

[tracychew]

Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=\"2050323\" time=\"1638439991\" user_id=\"195250:[quote=\"Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=2050323 time=1638439991 user_id=195250]
Do you kids know that you peek at their diary?[/quote]

Thanks for the question. I guess if you read it literally, I can understand you think I am a crazy mummy invading my kids privacy and then talking about it online...... :imdrowning: :?:

So let me explain how I \"peek\" at her diary..
She started the journal as an exercise with a teacher to put her thoughts down into words since she was 9.
She often shares the diary with me.. I do not read it when she doesn't share..

So yes.. She knows..

I am sorry if I raised any concerns.. :slapshead:

[Liew Nga Wing]

tracychew\" post_id=\"2050362\" time=\"1638453635\" user_id=\"143434:

Thanks for the question. I guess if you read it literally, I can understand you think I am a crazy mummy invading my kids privacy and then talking about it online...... :imdrowning: :?:

So let me explain how I \"peek\" at her diary..
She started the journal as an exercise with a teacher to put her thoughts down into words since she was 9.
She often shares the diary with me.. I do not read it when she doesn't share..

So yes.. She knows..

I am sorry if I raised any concerns.. :slapshead:

You are a great mother and I just curious only.
When I was small, I liked reading and writing detective stories but my parents never read what I wrote

[tracychew]

Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=\"2050368\" time=\"1638454868\" user_id=\"195250:[quote=\"Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=2050368 time=1638454868 user_id=195250]
You are a great mother and I just curious only.
When I was small, I liked reading and writing detective stories but my parents never read what I wrote [/quote]

Aiyoh.. If you have them send to me I will read them :rahrah:

[Mychildcentrelogin]

Can someone recommend S&T exercise book to buy for P6 students?

[Creation]

manorway\" post_id=\"2047421\" time=\"1637608627\" user_id=\"9303:

Personally I think being given a list of phrases is not real value adding because we can easily buy some phrases books for that. Some MOE trained tutors and school teachers also do that. Just feed with pages of phrases and teach the theory of story mountain, climax and what-not ... the same structure... and cliche opening and conclusion. When I used to try to help kids, I struggled to understand the story mountain structure myself. Kids can repeat the names of the different stages of story mountain but the writing quality did not improve. Too much spoonfeeding, how to have original ideas? No need to know a lot of phrases too. After trying so many so-called MOE teachers-turned private tutors and even famous centres, we got so disillusioned for a while. Eventually what we learnt from our fav teacher is kids must first be encouraged to express ideas freely and fluently, especially if very young so their creativity is not stifled. Then they can learn to organise the ideas and concurrently guide to replace and insert vocab to describe more. You didn't mention your child's age, but 4 pages essay so I guess upper Pri? For us, it was refreshing when we finally found a teacher who did not use the typical story mountain and just got kids to write their best piece and then showed them 2 or 3 things to focus on each week. Kids must write another draft but it was not copying. After a few weeks, the P5 kid's score finally reached 36/40, a ten-point jump! Without memorising a thing. The P2 who is weaker because of the fear of making mistakes became so confident of just expressing own ideas freely. The stories are now so original, never a cookie-cutter piece again. I see this as creativity unleashed.

Hi Manorway, can pm me the teacher's contact?

[ChiefKiasu]

You probably should PM the person as that will send an email notification to the person.

[Vicky2016]

Hello parents,

When do you thini is a good time for your child to be exposed to creative writing? I am considering whether to put my dd for creative writing classes when she goes p1 next year however, I feel that it could be too soon as compo writing is only introduced in p3. Am I right ??
Confused mummy here please help. 😄

[san20sg]

Vicky2016\" post_id=\"2062570\" time=\"1648187962\" user_id=\"176407:

Hello parents,
When do you thini is a good time for your child to be exposed to creative writing? I am considering whether to put my dd for creative writing classes when she goes p1 next year however, I feel that it could be too soon as compo writing is only introduced in p3. Am I right ??
Confused mummy here please help. 😄

Yes it may be too early for weekly classes in P1. They are just starting to learn how to construct sentences. Maybe you can teach yourself in P1 and send to classes in P2 or P3.

[manorway]

Vicky2016\" post_id=\"2062570\" time=\"1648187962\" user_id=\"176407:

Hello parents,
When do you thini is a good time for your child to be exposed to creative writing? I am considering whether to put my dd for creative writing classes when she goes p1 next year however, I feel that it could be too soon as compo writing is only introduced in p3. Am I right ??
Confused mummy here please help. 😄

Creative writing and school composition are not the same. Creative writing just means writing any topic creatively, then it is about encouraging your child to write any time on any topic. But if you are referring to compo writing for the eventual P3 exam, then P1 is too early in my view. Some kids at P1 can already form very good sentences, so you can encourage them to write freely first.