Welcome to Our Creative Storytelling Homeschool Language Arts Course

Course Outline for Our Creative Storytelling Homeschool Language Arts Course

Fifteen engaging Creative Storytelling homeschool language arts lesson themes and journaling assignments encourage creative writing skills in both avid and reluctant elementary-age writers.

• Lesson One: What is Creative Writing?
• Lesson Two: Techniques
• Lesson Three: Details on Character Sketch
• Lesson Four: More Details on Your Character
• Lesson Five: More Details on Your Character
• Lesson Six: Character’s Interaction with Others
• Lesson Seven: Character Sketch Wrap Up
• Lesson Eight: Beginning of a Plot
• Lesson Nine: Creation of a Complex Plot
• Lesson Ten: Two Common Plot Structures
• Lesson Eleven: Identifying Plot Structure in Your Life Events
• Lesson Twelve: Using a “W” Plot Structure in Your Life Events
• Lesson Thirteen: Settings
• Lesson Fourteen: Writing Exercise
• Lesson Fifteen: Eight-Point Story Arc and Writing Your Story

Course Sample for Our Creative Storytelling Homeschool Language Arts Course

Lesson One, Part One

Materials needed:

Composition or spiral notebook
Pencils
Imagination

Start by asking students what they think creative writing is. Give them time to brainstorm and answer this question. After they have answered what they believe creative writing is, give them the definition.

A simple definition of creative writing is the art of making things up. (http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-creative-writing-definition-typesexamples.html).

Explain that creative writing is original and a person’s self-expression. Creative writing does not have to be technical or formal, for the most part.

Ask students what they think the purpose of creative writing is. After they have been given time to brainstorm and answer with their view, explain that the purpose of creative writing is to entertain and share human experience (i.e., love, loss, faith, etc.).

Now inform students that the most important step in creative writing is: USE YOUR IMAGINATION!

Explain to students that they will be utilizing their notebook as a journal with daily writing prompts and today will be their first prompt. Explain that students are given 10 minutes each day to write about the daily prompt in their journal. Explain that students are to date each entry and write the daily prompt at the top of the page.

• Journal Writing – If you were to design a video game, what would it be called? What would the video game be about? What would happen in this video game?

Start a timer for 10 minutes for journal writing time.

After students have finished journal writing, explain to them that they will have worksheets where they will use their imagination and write as much as they can based on the worksheet prompts.

Click here to download today’s worksheet titled, “If I Were in a Band”: http://www.education.com/files/241001_241100/241020/creative-writing-prompt-01.pdf

*Parents: Be sure you print the worksheet and then hand it to your student. Ads on the website might be questionable.

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