Creative Writing, Enjoy By, Tessie

Empowering students to write effectively builds their self-esteem, confidence and they begin to become risk takers with their creativity. Providing students with good, useful tools, strategies and skills to write is paramount. My helpingwithwriting.com website touches the surface of how to teach writing successfully.

By the teacher role modeling writing first, the students learn the basics of writing. Not only do they see you writing or printing as the case may be, but they also learn how you work with the English Language.

As a whole class, pick a topic everyone is familiar with, example; snow. Next, have the students share the words that come to their mind as you, the teacher write them on the board or better yet chart paper so that the words can be referred to when the students are writing independently.

Simply start by taking the words and making a sentence, example; Snow is white. Capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. Spaces between the words. Period or full stop at the end of the sentence. Simple.

Change the sentence opener to improve the sentence, example; White, fluffy snow floats down to the ground. Use the students words and ideas to raise their self-esteem, confidence and support they creative side. The room will fall silent as the students begin to their own pieces using the tools, strategies and skills to write top-quality sentences. After all, you are the one that will have to read all their writing and wouldn't it be nice to read widely creative work.

Enjoy teaching, Tessie :)

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Tessie