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Teachers’s Guide to Creative Writing Lesson 1

Topic: Mind Mapping

Objective:

1. For the organization of thoughts and ideas
2. For the generation of ideas

Materials: Plain paper or drawing block, pencils, coloured pencils (optional)

Method

1. Introduce the topic and the objective of this topic to the students
2. Tell your students that they are going to play a ‘Mind-Organizing’Game
3. This is how the Game works.

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Teachers’s Guide to Creative Writing Lesson 2

Topic: Visulization

Objective:

1. For the brainstorming of words using the five senses
2. To help communicate meaning and increase understanding
3. To help students experience the different perspectives needed to create ideas using sensory images
4. For Vocabulary Enrichment

Materials: Different things like food, objects, liquids, photographs of different places, etc.

Method

1. Introduce the topic and the objective of this topic to the students
2. Tell your students that you want them to visualize certain events, objects, occasions they have had, using their five senses. To play

Teachers’s Guide to Creative Writing Lesson 3

Topic: Expressive Writing (Part 1)

Objective:

1. To help students write expressively
2. Understanding about Expressive writing and how to use Idioms, Phrases, Proverbs and Similes

Method

An Idiom is a figurative expression, which is used in writing and in speech. It is an expression where the meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.

For example:

Blind leading the blind      – someone

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