| Instant Lessons in Creative Writing Book 1 encourages young writers to explore new ways of developing conflict, themes and style, and are helped through the drafting and composing of introductions and conclusions. When completing worksheets, students will also examine basic story structure and practise the planning process.
Students are encouraged to gather ideas from both straightforward and unexpected sources, and will use a mix of simple, complex, visual and written stimuli through a variety of activities. Vocabulary is also expanded and spelling, grammar and punctuation skills are refined.
Topics Included:
- Why We Write
- Types of Personal Imaginative Writing
- Case study- Time to Strike
- Story Ideas
- Building Vocabulary
- Stages in a Story
- Plotting Story Movement
- Sequencing Subject Matter
- Introductions
- Colourful Openings
- Sentence Variations
- Homophones
- Plots with a Twist
- Case Study- Outside
- Developing Characters
- Establishing Character Goals
- Sentence Structures
- Developing Themes
- Paragraphing
- Use of Irony
- Developing Realistic and Interesting Characters
- Developing Conflict
- Planning Conflict
- Varying Sentences. |
