Exploring Creative Writing with Your Child

Creative writing can give your child an expressive outlet for their creativity and improve their academic performance. Outside of English lessons, creative writing skills can help your child formulate better answers for essay questions through improved reasoning.

A Quaker school in the UK shares how you can explore creative writing with your child.

Letters to The Prime Minister

Writing a letter to the prime minister to express concern or influence change can get your child interested in world affairs from a young age whilst improving their writing. This will teach your child how to build strong arguments and structure letters. For this, you might want to introduce the concept of point, evidence and explanation.

Enter a Writing Contest

The prospect of winning something can be very exciting for a child. By entering a writing competition, your child has the opportunity to gain recognition for their writing skills and in turn, be more passionate about their writing.

Introduce Famous Celebrities or Role Models

Explore famous people that credit their career to English with your child. This could be a singer, film director or author. Having an appreciation for English and the different careers it could lead to is a great way to get your child interested in creative writing.

Writing a Letter to Their Favourite Cartoon Character

A creative writing task that you give to your child might be to write a letter to their favourite on-screen character. This could involve sharing secrets or the details of revenge a villain is plotting. Tasks could involve word limits to improve your child’s conciseness or new words from their spellings to include. Storytelling is so important but writing in general has to be a focus for you when teaching your children about their literacy skills. Equipping them with the right pens and letter headed paper can encourage them to write letters of thanks or of joy to their favourite cartoon characters can be a game changer. From here, they can enjoy writing that isn’t on a keyboard!

Proofreading

Get your child to proofread their own writing once complete to strengthen their writing skills and practice good SPAG. Doing this will help your child to develop attention to detail and allow them to express themselves better through their writing.

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