Conceiving writing as a means of creation implies paying greater attention to students' capacity for invention, and to develop this capacity it is essential to foster creativity in the classroom. This is what we know today as creative writing. A set of resources and techniques that help writers put their ideas in order to express themselves in writing through a very important element: creativity.

Several authors defend the school as the most influential and responsible for promoting creativity in children. The current situation is that teachers lack the resources to incorporate writing as an instrument of reflection and the actual law limits schools to running away from using writing as a strictly academic instrument. Therefore, this website has been created from an end-of-grade paper that aims to provide teachers with a set of resources and activities to encourage creative writing in the classroom. In addition, some activities to do outside the classroom are included, as creativity can also be developed both inside and outside the academic setting.

Some of the chosen activities are adapted from an optional course I took at the Complutense University in my third year of my Primary Education degree, called 'Creative Writing and Reading'. Here I learned the importance of promoting creativity in the classroom as well as various techniques and activities to do so. Further ideas came from books such as "The grammar of fantasy" by Gianni Rodari and other books that are collect in the 'resources' section of this website as well as my own ideas.

ACTIVITY 1: WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

There are many word cloud generators on the web. It's all about introducing students to a word. In our case the word is creativity. First, students are asked to think of a word that defines or reminds them of the term creativity.

ACTIVITY 2: RED FLOWER WITH GREEN STEM

The activity consists of reading Helen Buckley's story "The little boy". It is a short story that tells the story of a child who loves to draw.

ACTIVITY 3: WHAT IS THIS?

This activity also works as an introduction to creative writing. It also helps to learn about the variety of resources we can use to help us be creative.

ACTIVITY 4: THE SIX WORDS

This activity serves as an introduction to creative writing, which also introduces the subject of prose.

ACTIVITY 5: LET´S CREATE A STORY

This is the construction of a micro story through a series of questions. In this one, for example, the student will be told that the main theme is shyness.

ACTIVITY 6: THE FIRST TIME I FELT...

This exercise gives students the opportunity to become the protagonist of a literary text. Students have to write about the first time they felt a feeling, in this case amazement. Students are given a sentence to include in the text. For example: "The first time I felt amazed".

ACTIVITY 7: THE FANTASTIC BINOMIAL

The main method proposed by Gianni Rodari in his book "Grammar of Fantasy" (1996) is the so-called "fantastic binomial". It consists of choosing two words randomly that already exist and making a connection between them.

ACTIVITY 8: DESCRIPTIONS

This activity is great to do at the beginning of the school year when students don't know each other very well.

ACTIVITY 9: TIME AND SPACE

This is a group activity that consists of adapting a story by changing time and space.

ACTIVITY 10: OTHER´S POINTS OF VIEW

The activity consists of changing the point of view of a story. For example: Little Red Riding Hood from Grandma's point of view. It is a group activity; each group can be assigned a character's point of view.

ACTIVITY 11: 'WHEN HE WOKE UP THE DINASAUR WAS STILL THERE' "

The activity consists of writing about what the following short story suggests: 'When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there." Through this creative writing activity, we work on imagination and creativity.

ACTIVITY 12: HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

This activity includes two preparatory exercises to carry out the final activity. First, ask students to define how they feel today with a single word, and then to think about that emotion in silence for a set time.

You want to write but you don't know how to start or you can't find inspiration? Take this 30-day challenge. Take ten minutes to write about these notes below. This is an automatic writing exercise.

Don't think, flow, and just write!

In this part of the blog we will be creating our own story.
You can click in the link below and continue the story. You must add an image and a text which is the continuation of the one just before. The topic chosen for this month is enterteinment. Your image should be related to this topic.

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Choose a notebook and create a personal writing journal. Don´t forget to be creative! You can write whatever you want plus your own comments about you writing ’journey’. Take it everywhere with you. Here are some examples about things you can do: