Big Words or Small Words?
Picture from http://blog.treering.com/writing-yearbook-copy-write-simply-convey-message/ I used to tell my Primary Four Creative Writing...
How to begin a story and make the narrative coherent
In this post, I am going to share what I have already shared with my young writers: How to begin a story. Referring to the Narrative Arc...
How to begin a Creative Writing?
From time to time, a concerned parent or a diffident young student would ask me, "Ms Teo, how to even begin a story?" I can fully...
Have you 'APPLE' your writing?
Whenever I teach Creative Writing, I would strongly encourage the students to explore and employ various literary devices. However some...
National Curriculum versus Creative Writing?
I have come across an article that discusses the impact of National Curriculum in Britain. As it pertains to Creative Writing, I have...
Want more Creative Writing potion? Here it is!
In this fourth potion, I shall introduce another lesson I have conducted with my older students who are in upper primary and lower...
From Picture to Prose? You need a PLAN!
One of my favourite quotes "Teacher, I don't want to plan. THERE IS NO TIME TO PLAN DURING TEST!" Ash lamented. She was resisting the...
Another Potion for Creative Writing!
In this post, I shall introduce another Creative Writing lesson I have conducted with different groups of students. Similar to the...
It's BREWED! It's READY! It's the POTION to (real!) Creative Writing!
Remember this? "Something Wicked is Brewing!" IT IS NOW READY! Enjoy the Brew! After rounding up the two-part series "Feather, Wood and...
"Cher, how to do this creative writing ah?"
Whenever I ask my students to start writing about a character topic, such as "My Favourite Person" or "The Bully", they would go into...
