20 Ideas To Creative Writing

20 teaching ideas for creative writing
What do they think? Write a monologue from someone elses point of view, it could be someone who the students know individually or a famous person. This is a really open activity which can be adapted in many different ways. Musical stimulus! Play a piece of music you could also add pictures to go with this. The students then write a response. This could be a short piece of description, poem or narrative.
Connect 5. Display (or distribute) five pictures of places / objects which students have to connect in a narrative. You could use story cubes too. Stories could be swapped and fleshed out to provide more detail. The best/ worst day. Students could use their own experience or imagine they are someone else. This doesnt even have to be a person but could be something inanimate a city the day that it was attacked during war, the sea when an oil spillage occurred. Screen to page. Show students a short clip from an atmospheric film which has no dialogue (gothic films are good for this!). Students note down what they can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. They write the scene in continuous prose, using description of all their senses to bring it to life. My most poignant memory. Students to write their responses to this statement. If helpful you could give some ideas: their first day at school, a birthday celebration, a traumatic event, a discovery they made etc. Nursery news. Take a nursery rhyme or fairy tale and change the narrative into a piece of broadsheet or tabloid reportage. This involves using a nonfiction form but in a creative way! Lots of fun can be had with creating headlines. Photographic stimulus! Provide your pupils with a range of photographs. You could add questions to each photo if you feel this would help them to gain some ideas. Use Teachits creative writing with pictures resource for ideas or to start. You said it. Put pictures up around the room of literary characters or famous writers or even people in the news. Give students speech bubble post-its to complete and put on the relevant picture. Have a reward for the top three! Titles. Give your pupils titles only and then ask them to write a creative response based on these.
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20 teaching ideas for creative writing
Facebook updates. When studying a novel or play, students are given a character to track. After each chapter, they create a new Facebook status update in the style of their particular character. Other characters could comment on it to show their connection with the writer. Still to life. Use pictures of famous artworks (or students could choose their favourite CD/ DVD cover). Students create a story around the picture what led up to this point, what happens next? Create a day. Students imagine an extra day in the week which can be just as they wish. They should decide what to call it, where it will fall, what itll consist of etc. Maybe itll have more than 24 hours nothings out of the question! The Teachit resource Create your own month has a similar idea for creating a new month. Run a workshop. Students take a piece (or pieces) of writing and workshop each others work. To do this, youll need to sit them in a circle and get them to: a) say in summary what they feel / think about each piece (while the writer listens quietly / takes notes) and b) how it might be improved. A workshop requires careful management but is excellent for helping students to redraft / edit their work. Everything they own. Students take a literary character (or a famous person) and imagine what might be in their bag or what their house might look like. This could be written as a script for MTV Cribs or the old Through the Keyhole TV programme. It could be turned into a speaking and listening activity in which they justify their choices! Different points in the picture. Get pupils to imagine they are located at different points in a picture (this could also include different characters in the picture). Get them to write about the picture from different perspectives. What is going on in the world? In groups, pupils discuss what has happened in the news recently. Use this as stimulus for writing a narrative about an event or the event from a witnesss perspective. Sweet sensation. Buy a bag of sweets or chocolates. Students have to use great detail to describe the sensation of receiving the sweet, unwrapping it, tasting it, chewing it etc. Make them hold back from eating it until almost the end of the exercise! Download Teachits Sherbet lemon resource (filename: sherbetl) for more on this. Bag of tricks! Get a bag and fill it with interesting items / props. Anything from a trinket box to a receipt or postcard can make for story-writing gold.
Its a sin! Using the seven deadly sins, students create a short story around one of the original sins. They could also make a list of what they deem to be modern sins and write a story which highlights one or all of them.
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