ELEMENTARY CREATIVE WRITING

ELEMENTARY CREATIVE WRITING

Students ages 7 and 8 are usually exploding with ideas. But this is an age during which, very often, the student encounters great resistance to his own perceptions and ideas, and even disapproval when he expresses them. Often, the resistance encountered is well-meaning, an attempt to help educationally "shape" the student. But such "help", no matter how well intended, is nearly always destructive of the student's own ability to perceive, create and express himself. These important skills must be protected and enhanced in anyone, but most particularly in a young student.

These are the tasks of our Elementary Creative Writing Courses. The student does NOT work on syntax, sentence construction, or most technical elements of language or writing (including spelling). Instead, at this young age, he explores through carefully constructed exercises and lesson plans, ways and means of expressing himself and his own viewpoints in words. These exercises are fun. At this age, we expect the student to handwrite, or type his stories. (In Starter, they are generally dictated.)

On this level, the student is taught the basic parts of language such as nouns, verbs, etc. These are then used creatively as springboards for creative exercises. This is an unusual and effective approach unique to Elementary level Connect The Thoughts Creative Writing courses.

Each course at this level consists of a semester worth of lesson plans at three per week, for about 18-19 weeks. Semester I, as an example, has 57 lesson plans, which are intended to be done one per day, three times per week.

To find out more about this program, please take a look at the video that you'll find toward the top right of this page. Then take a look at the description and samples provided for each course.