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From early childhood, children struggle to make sense of written language.

Understanding writing and expression of the written form can be a challenge for many of our pupils. However, if we choose activities that stimulate their imagination, half of the battle can be won! Here is a selection of activities suitable for introducing children to creative writing, with the added advantage of being flexible enough to be used with many different ages and levels.

What youll need:

white card, coloured pencils and markers.

Animal friends

This cross-curricular activity is ideal for integrating with a science and arts class. Pupils make a shape book about an animal friend.

What to do:
Brainstorm a list of animals with your pupils and write them on the board. Ask pupils to choose an animal to write about. Help them to make their little books in the shape of the animal they have chosen. Bind the books with staples or string. Ask your pupils to write or dictate to you special facts about the animal friend in their shape book. (They may want to say why they think that animal would make a good friend). They can then show their books to the rest of the class.

Make a greetings card

Its great fun for your pupils to prepare birthday messages, Mother's Day greetings, Christmas or Easter cards and then give them to a family member or friend. Moreover, only the most basic of reading and writing skills are necessary to achieve this task successfully.

What to do:
Ask the pupils what expressions they would like to write. Elicit short expressions in the mother tongue and then translate them onto the blackboard. Add and explain any other expressions that you think may be useful at this stage. Pupils then prepare a greetings card following these steps: a) Ask them to write Dear Mum or any other suitable introduction at the top of the card. b) They then select an expression from the blackboard. c) They copy it onto the card. d) They decorate the card with a drawing and sign their names.

What youll need: construction paper


and paper for writing on, scissors, animalshaped stencils or patterns, crayons and pencils, a stapler or string, a hole punch.

Writing notices and adverts

You can ask your pupils to write short notices, adverts, or pieces of news about things that they want to exchange, buy, or that are simply interesting for them. Here is an example my daughter wrote some time ago:

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