Creative Writing



Why creative writing?

Although creative writing can be fun for students, we must remember that there are great benefits to creative write. Tompkins (1982) suggests seven reasons why children should write stories:
  • to entertain
  • to foster artistic expression
  • to explore the functions and values of writing
  • to stimulate imagination
  • to clarify thinking
  • to search for identity
  • to learn to read and write

What do I do?

Each week, a new picture prompt will be posted on this page. Students are to prepare a piece of writing and deliver it to Mr Ahie. Creative writing is about creating exciting, detailed, well-thought out stories that are enjoyable to the reader. Remember that this is the purpose of your writing.

Writing prompts:
Term 1




Can I please type all of my stories?

As tempting as it might be to type all your stories, try to write most of them with a pen in your writing journal or your writing book. This will be of a greater benefit to you.

By depending on technology, we are in danger of hiding our faults rather than improving them.

Let this video encourage you to write:



“Typing is a very fundamental tool that children do need to learn. However, they should not be learning it at the expense of handwriting.... It is not technology that is the direct enemy of the pen, it is our dependency on technology. And the greater we grow our dependency on technology, what we may soon find is that we’ve created the most technologically advanced way of creating illiteracy.”

I'm stuck!

Try something different. Change the purpose of the writing to help you with ideas. Here are some ideas to go from.





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