Creative and Crafty Writing-Student Book - Softcover

Creative and Crafty Writing is just what you need to help your visual and kinetheticstudents learn to write. The Christian-based program offers twelve, one-hour lessons that will teach your student to write a fable, a news story, and a short story. With each lesson, the student not only learns the techniques of writing, but he or she also creates a craft project to supplement the lesson. This is where the curriculum shines!

For instance, the lessons on Writing a Narrative (short story) begin with learning about theme and setting. The students learn to describe the time and place for their story by completing a worksheet that guides them through the process. I particularly like the way the author incorporates vivid adjectives into the lesson.

After completing this lesson on theme and setting, the student creates a thematic pencil holder to further emphasize the theme element. Subsequent lessons work on creating characters, plot (conflict, complications, climax, and conclusion), dialogue, great beginnings, and title selection, each with additional craft projects to make them really fun! 

Other lessons in the book include creating a newspaper, complete with clip art to cut out and use for illustrations and writing a fable in a student-created My Treasure notebook. Each lesson takes about one hour to complete.