Recently, a parent enquired about our Writer's Craft programme as a few of her friends had recommended our programme to her. She asked me, "What does the programme cover? Could you share more details with me?"
During the classes, pupils will be taught to brainstorm for ideas using a framework. Besides that, they are exposed to a wide variety of vocabulary and phrases related to the theme. Most importantly, they are taught writing skills explicitly through our in-house writing resources and writing frameworks crafted by Teacher Hayati and Teacher Serena. The pupils are taught literary devices like Magic of 3, anaphora, metaphors, alliteration, symbolism, fragmented sentences and others. We also teach writing techniques such as character description, expanding a moment and creating tension. To make learning easier for the students, we have crafted our own writing frameworks for these writing techniques.
We also guide pupils in appreciating writing techniques and writing style adopted by accomplished writers. We do this by analysing writer's craft through the use of mentor texts during lessons. Mentor texts used are in the form of extracts from stories written by accomplished writers. Mentor texts are also in the form of model compositions crafted by Teacher Hayati and Teacher Serena.
We're thankful that our efforts have achieved what we have set out to do - to help them blossom into more confident writers.
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