Welcome to Year 1Family Workshop

Literacy – Creative Writing

Creative WritingWhat Is Creative Writing?

In Year 1 creative writing is about encouraging the children to use adjectives, sentence starters and begin to use connectives within their writing.

The skills of creative writing can be used in a variety of genres such as; poetry, recounts, stories, instructions etc.

Our aim this morning is to show you how we use the Pie Corbett method to assist when writing.Pie Corbett is an expert in creative writing - more information about how he encourages children to write, can be found on the internetwww.piecorbett.org.uk Although we have said this method can be used to write a range of texts, today we are going to show you how to use his method to build up a story with children who are at different levels of writing.

• The aim is to ‘Hook the Reader’ so first we need to hook the writer (Your children!)

• Stimulus: Object, Video, Picture, Music

• Recipe for writing

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Adjectives

• Dark• Spooky• Scary• Spiky• Foggy

The Lonely House

• Sat on the top of a lonely hill there is a dark, spooky house. Close to the scary house stands two spiky trees that look like witches hands. High up in the foggy sky the moon is shining brightly and it is lighting up the hilltop house.

~Activity for Today~

Collect ideas!

-by Pie Corbett

Activity

• Choose setting and add adjectives• Choose and draw characters and add

adjectives• Decide on action (middle and ending)

Complete story map

• If you would like to begin writing your story please do so with lined paper from the front.