Crafting Compelling Stories: Exploring the Elements of Creative Writing

Crafting Compelling Stories: Exploring the Elements of Creative Writing

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand the key themes of planning a creative writing story and identify important writing techniques.

What do you already know about planning a creative writing story and using different writing techniques?

Introduction

Understanding the story mountain model: Introduction, Build-up, Problem, Resolution, Ending.

Interactive Activity: Story Mountain

Drag and drop the story elements into the correct positions on the story mountain.

Identifying Writing Techniques

Exploring different writing techniques like similes, metaphors, and more.

Interactive Activity: Writing Techniques

Match the writing technique with its definition and example.

Choosing the Most Important Technique

Deciding which writing technique you believe is the most important in a story and explaining your choice.

Interactive Discussion: Justifying Your Choice

Share your chosen writing technique and explain why you believe it is the most important.

Reflection and Conclusion

Reflect on what you've learned about planning a creative writing story and the importance of writing techniques.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.