Hands ON Creative Writing
Confidence Building!!!!
Hands On Creative Writing Class Class Objective:
This class is meant to inspire and encourage children to put a story on paper. They will either draw or print and paste a picture each week to go with their stories. They will be taught a different concept each week in class--whether it be capitalization, punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, parts of a sentence, etc. But the ultimate goal is to have them write short stories. They can as simple as a few sentences or as long as a few paragraphs, depending on where your child is at. This class is also focused on building confidence. You will not find a lot of correction on the paper itself, mainly just an encouraging note. What is important is that they completed the story and that they stood in front of the class to read it to their peers. They do not have to write about the subject that we talk about in class, nor do they have to write about what we are building as far as our lego project. I encourage it though. But if they would like to write about the weather or what color sweater they are wearing, then please, go ahead and let them.
The ultimate goal of the class is to build students’ confidence; as well as getting them to express complete thoughts, be more descriptive, and use the correct capitalization and punctuation. By the end of the semester they should have a book of stories and pictures that they can be proud of. Yes it will have mistakes, but they will gradually be able to look back over time and see how far they have come.
This class is meant to inspire and encourage children to put a story on paper. They will either draw or print and paste a picture each week to go with their stories. They will be taught a different concept each week in class--whether it be capitalization, punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, parts of a sentence, etc. But the ultimate goal is to have them write short stories. They can as simple as a few sentences or as long as a few paragraphs, depending on where your child is at. This class is also focused on building confidence. You will not find a lot of correction on the paper itself, mainly just an encouraging note. What is important is that they completed the story and that they stood in front of the class to read it to their peers. They do not have to write about the subject that we talk about in class, nor do they have to write about what we are building as far as our lego project. I encourage it though. But if they would like to write about the weather or what color sweater they are wearing, then please, go ahead and let them.
The ultimate goal of the class is to build students’ confidence; as well as getting them to express complete thoughts, be more descriptive, and use the correct capitalization and punctuation. By the end of the semester they should have a book of stories and pictures that they can be proud of. Yes it will have mistakes, but they will gradually be able to look back over time and see how far they have come.
Please remember that your child may have another story already started from class for homework. If they say that the teacher said to write about something other than what is on the outline please let them.
Guided Writing Groups
1st grade- 3rd Grade
What Your Child Will Learn
Capitalizing sentence beginnings- A sentence begins with a capital letter.
Punctuating statements- A telling sentence ends with a period.
Writing statements- A telling sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Punctuating questions- A sentence that asks a question ends with a question mark.
Writing the beginning, middle, end of stories
Building a Paragraph- completing a sequenced paragraph-following a topic sentence-
Writing a topic sentence- supporting sentences-closing sentences
Writing Questions- An asking sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a question mark.
Capitalizing/Punctuating statements and questions
Writing statements and questions
Writing exclamations- sentences that end with an exclamation point.
Building sentences- a good sentence has a part that tells who or what the sentence is about. (Subjects)
Mapping the story- setting
Building a Paragraph- completing a sequenced paragraph-following a topic sentence-
Writing a topic sentence- supporting sentences-closing sentences
Building sentences- a good sentence has a part that tells where or when the action is happening. (Predicate)
Building sentences from pictures.
Making sentences more interesting- include subject, an action, where or when
Mapping the story- characters
Planning and writing a narrative paragraph
Writing descriptive words- adjectives- a good sentence uses describing words to help the reader “paint a picture” in his or her mind.
Adding descriptive words to make a sentence more interesting.
Mapping the story- problem
Planning and writing an expository paragraph
Writing sentences from adjectives and verbs provided.
Using Exact information
Mapping the story - solution
Planning and Writing a persuasive paragraph