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 for his own perception and ideas, and even disapproval when he expresses them. Often, the resistance encountered is well-meaning, an attempt to help "shape" the student educationally. But such "help", no matter how well intended, is nearly always destructive of the student's own ability to perceive and create and express himself. These critical skills must be protected and enhanced in a young student.
This is the actual task of your Elementary Creative Writing Courses . The student does NOT work on syntax, sentence construction, or any 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.)
Each course at this level consists of a semester worth of lesson plans at three per week, for about 19-20 weeks. Semester I, as an example, has 57 lesson plans, which are intended to be done one per day, three times per week.
Creative Writing - Semester I
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Elementary Creative Writing I is a full semester (57 lessons, 19-20 weeks) worth of fun and challenging Creative Writing for ages 7-8. The student learns basic elements of the English language and immediately puts them to creative use, building his own stories out of nouns and verbs and adjectives and adverbs of his own choosing. Many key concepts in creative writing are addressed, such as action, characterization, dialogue, and description, all presented in a manner designed especially for this age group.
To look at a sample from this course, click here.
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| Time to Complete | Cost of This Course | To Order |
| 57 hours | $35.00 USD |
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