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Writing
Rafiah Mudassir
Farhana Farhat Asif
SPELT 2010
Warm-Up Writing
Task:
Create something with the lump
of clay on your desk.
When you are finished, take
about 10 minutes to write what
you created and why.
Questions for Discussion
• Look at the ceramic jar. What steps
would you need to go through to create
something like this from a lump of clay?
• How do you think this is similar to
writing an essay?
Some Basic Knowledge
About Creative Writing
Why Do We
Write
Purpose
Communicate with each other
Record information
Enhance oral development
Reinforce vocabulary and Language
structure
Present ideas, information and
feelings
Demonstrate ones creativity and
critical thinking
Inform ,influence and entertain
The Writing Process
Activate knowledge
Take in information
Generate Ideas
Organize/Reorganize
Publish
The Writing Process
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t i Pre-Writing
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f
Re
Polishing Drafting
Revising Editing
What do we need to teach ?
Fluency
Flexibility
Originality
Elaboration
Visualization
Lateral Thinking
Define Problems
Teachers’ can develop learners
creativity by:
Choose Interesting topics.
Go beyond given information
Give time to think
Reward creative efforts
Value their creative attributes
Teach them creative thinking
techniques
Create a climate conducive to
creativity
Conducive Environment for
developing learners creativity
Provide challenges
Appreciate individuality
Encourage open discussion
Absence of conflicts
Allow time to think
Encourage confidence and willingness
to take risk
Appreciate and support ideas
Respect the novel and unusual
Strategies For Creative
Writing 1
Activity Sheet
Three Minute Fast Write:
Write anything that you can
remember from the Hare and the
Tortoise.
1,2,3 ……...go !!!!!!!
The Tortoise And The Hare
hare tortoise slow grass white lazy stupid clever Sunny
run competition sleep hot tired sad cry
surprised happy cry wake-up sunny unhappy sleep
Setting .
Who when where Event Problems Resolutions
Rooms in my house
1 Living room
1 Kitchen
Learn to love
whatever work My future family
I am doing
Make them
work Stay at home a priority
while raising
children
Raise healthy,
Use the skills I happy children
have learned in as Stay close
many ways as to my
possible family
Why Use Brainstorming and
Mind Mapping
Brainstorming: Excellent way of
creating many new ideas
Helps students break out of their
thinking patterns into new ways of
looking at things.
Mind Map: Used for arranging and
developing ideas.
A good format for reviewing ideas
Strategies For Creative
Writing 2
Writing Stories.
Transformation
Making an appeal
Creating a new ending/ new
version to a story
Transformation
Making an appeal
Imagine you are the Troll.
Write why you are so fierce
to the goats.
I am fierce to the goats
because……………..
Transformation
Language Help
home
Troll and Billy
become
Sample good friends.
Troll took Billy Home.
Troll takes care of
Billy was very hungry.
Billy
There was no food
Lived happily ever
so
after
Billy dies of
starvation New endings