Your ideas for creative writing tasks - brainstorming and voting

Fan Fiction has worked out great on my school. The students decide on a character from a film, book, band or history and write their own story about him or her. I've had read hilarious stories about Mexican Star Wars (Obi-Juan Kenobi and missing guacamole), Gandalf being a patient on Grey's Anato... more

by Jenny Fredman

Seems great ! I will try this one .

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Super!

by Milena Cvetkova

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Excellent idea!

by Stamatia Stamati

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Wow. I'm impressed. What a great idea to try on. Thanks for sharing.

by Alex

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Very imaginative and great fun!

by Angeliki Tsintza

Great! I love it!

by Milijana Gajic

Great! One more great idea for me to experiment with my students. Thanks, Jenny.

by Alice Nascimento

Nice work! i will try it with my little students

by Maria Beglopoulou

Great idea. It could also be extended to write a story about more suggested characters.

by MajaB

I'll try it with my students!

by Maria

It seems great, how old are the students you proposed it? thanks

by Davide Fiorito

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Great!

by Sandra Mitrovic

Great idea!

Excellent idea!

by Sonia Ilieva

Great idea! I like it!

by Lidia Boje

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Leticia Gil, Sonia Ilieva, Alina Elena Galan and 29 more

' See, think, wonder' approach. Students see the painting, describe it, write a text about historical facts behind the painting. The same principle is used in project work.

by Iveta

I love it. This year I was thinking about doing an eTwinning project based on art & storytelling.

by Maria Rita, Italy

Great!

by Stamatia Stamati

Interesting approach! It teaches students a different way of viewing things!

by Angelik Tsintza

Visible thinking routines are a great way to encourage students to write and reflect on the process

by Javier Martinez

My eTwinning project for this school year has a similar activity. :) https://live.etwinning.net... more

by Alice Nascimento

A few years ago I asked my students to share their thoughts on different paintings which I later ... more

by Dragana Videnov

Really nice ideas. I've done that as well not just for a writing activity but also to practise sp... more

by Alex_PT

It's a good method. I've used it also in my English classes to have students imagining the conver... more

Great idea! I can apply it into discussions on cultural movements or in the lessons of Communicat... more

by Alina Balan

Great!

by Sonia Ilieva

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Birsen Durmaz, Leticia Gil, Selda Topal and 21 more

Writing a limerick

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

This kind of creative writing I use in the litterature lessons, for describing the characters in ... more

i have already worked on limericks . it is fun and kids like it!

by genevieveMoutahr

My students like especialy limerick "bout professor "There was once a student named Blessor, whos... more

by Tetyana Pavlenko

I like limericks and my students also love them. We often use this tool to creative describe a se... more

by Alina Marilena Buduleanu

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Sounds interesting! I might try it too =)

by Dragana Videnov

This seems different to me and I want to try.

by Hülya AYAN

I like the fact that you give students clear indications on how to go about it but let them free ... more

by sandra

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I like your idea!

by Lidia Boje

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Maria, Maria, Maria Pagliarulo and 15 more

Writing a letter to a famous artist to ask for our portrait"

by Elena

step 1: Creating a calligram using 20 words of the things that better represent ourselves. Step ... more

I love this idea. I keep it to experiment with my students. Thanks, Elena. :)

by Alice Nascimento

I think I'll try this with my older students. Thank you for sharing, Elena

by Dragana Videnov

I like this idea! I can do it with my young learners! :)

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Maria Pagliarulo, Elnara, Alina Balan and 4 more

For my primary school pupils I give pictures from magazines with unusual situations (flying people, weird looking people and weird looking places). I divide students in couples or three people teems. Students have to create a story that includes scene or object in picture. Bigger the group more p... more

by Laura Eimane, Latvia

Good work! I will try to introduce it with my students too. Thanks Laura!

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Good.I'll try to do with my students too

by Gunel

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Maria Pagliarulo, Petra Tolar, Daniela Iuppo and 4 more

I often use a RAFT writing strategy. It includes writing from different viewpoints and helps students learn important writing skills such as audience, main idea, and organization. It teaches students to think creatively about writing by responding to the following prompts: (R) Role of the Writer:... more

by Josip Strija

I use this strategy, too. My students like to play different roles in writing texts

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

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My students like reading and playing different roles in writing texts too.

by Ayten

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This strategy is very useful and helps students understand the need for different styles of writi... more

by Angeliki Tsintza

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Gitta, MJ Verdú, Spain, Mário Miguel Guedes and 2 more

Last year in an eTwinning project, we used historical patrimony of our cities to do creative writing. In the story, students had to include in their narration description and presentation of historical monuments, places etc.

by Carine

I like this theme, is one of my favourites. I found out aboat a lot of legends from my region. Kn... more

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona

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Elena Vita, Italy, Alice Nascimento, Neus and 3 more

A short story with two classmates as characters (without their real names). The other classmates are trying to guess on the basis of description and activities who the characters are.

by Milena Cvetkova

I like guessing games . there are very motivating for kids .

by Genevieve Mouthar

I like guessing activity. I am used to it from the times Iwas a student. It is very interesting a... more

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania, MJ Verdú, G mouthar and 2 more

Writing by using cubes: pupils throw cubes with little pictures on them. I got these cubes from a friend. There are 9 of them. Pupils can: throw 3 by 3 for the beginning, middle and the end of the story; or one by one for story development; or create a character by using 3 cubes and then use the ... more

by Marija

I find this activity very interesting to work with old students. With youn learners is quite diff... more

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Sonia Ilieva, Bernarda Kejžar, Daniela Iuppo and 2 more

Fairytale salad

by Maria Beglopoulou, Greece

We use a poster with all the basic heroes of wellknown fairytales and made a really new fairytale... more

My students are writing collaborative fairy tales starting from european fairytales and transform... more

by Rita

I like this idea because students love fairy tales. However, for older students it would be fun t... more

by Katerina

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Katerina Dimou, Ksenija, Rita and 1 more

The creative writing task I have used with my secondary school students is “World magazine”. It should be done in groups . Each student’s task is to write one page for this magazine. Their World magazine should have the following pages: Editorial, News, Entertainment, Sport, etc. Finally stu... more

by Victoria Pavlenko, Latvia

Excellent idea, Victoria! So far, my students have done the same in L1 for our school e-magazine

by Dragana Videnov

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Elf, Ksenija and 1 more

Change the character

by Alina Marilena Buduleanu

For the young students, writing a creative and coherent story can be difficult, so I give them th... more

This is a good task to change the point of view. Everybody loves good ones so making them bad is ... more

by Marija Grah

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Sonia Ilieva, Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania, Jana Kusterle and 1 more

Imagine you're a character from the book. Write a letter to another character asking for advice, complaining about something, etc.

by Dragana Videnov

I think it's a good activity for secondary school students.

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A great idea!

I like this activity! The students can live the caracter's life and can have his own opinion abou... more

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Sonia Ilieva

Victoria Pavlenko

Creating storyboarding - developing a visual story to explore the problem as a narrative, the team of students will be able to see how ideas interact and connect to form a solution. Sticky notes will be our friend. Take a few minutes to have everyone on the team write out their ideas as indivi... more

by Alina Balan

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Sandra Mitrovic, Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Gunel Mammadova and 1 more

Magic Potions For Halloween I ask my students to write magic potions in a Macbeth style . They love it !

by genevieve Mouthar

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Neus, Milena Cvetkova and 1 more

students can write their individual responses on post-it notes and later add them to a class list of ideas.

by Javier Martinez

I think that comparing ideas is a very interesting and useful strategy.

by Alice Nascimento

I like your idea.

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Alice Nascimento

Nicoleta Maxim

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

I teach at a vocational high school. Sometimes in classes I want them to create scenarios about the subjects. I also want them to write their thoughts on the future and dreams.

by Nesrin Kurt

I will try it!

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Ania Bębenek

lacramioara fira

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Musical Dictation

by Tadeja Sustar

Prepare students for dictation. Play short parts of different sorts of music (no lyrics, just in... more

Great idea;)

by Bernarda

Interesting idea!

by Anca

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It can be a good way to make teenagers more interested in English lessons.

by merve

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Anca

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Combination of text and pictures

by Petra Tolar

With my young learners I use short texts in which I use pictures instead of some words. They can ... more

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Bernarda

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Sonia Ilieva

a creative story from a painting of a local artist

by Simona Caucci, Italy

Within a eTwinning project, the students have invented a short story starting from a paiting of a... more

Like the idea!

by Maria

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Maria

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Tricider can be used as a basis for writing a collective poem.

by Alice Nascimento (Portugal)

Last year I did this activity and it gave great results. The objective was to write a poem about ... more

by Alice Nascimento (Portugal)

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Mário Miguel Guedes

Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Impossible interview or Ballad

by Maria Rita, Italy

I sometimes have my students write an interview to a dead author (eg: Shakespeare) or write their... more

I like this idea!

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona

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Neus

Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Four years ago, in one of my etwinning projects , we have written a story by using Rony's Cubes. 3 pics given to each country from the cubes. They were the key words and they had to use them in their stories. We grouped the countries into theree. If one country wrote the first paragraph, second c... more

by Elf

Elif Büyükuysal

I used Rony's cubes too. It was amazing! My kids had a lot of fun :D

by Elena Vita, Italy

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Elena Vita, Italy

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Collaborative stories

by MJ Verdú, Spain

Last year I run a project in which students write a brief part of a text from a short story, as t... more

A great activity for young learners.

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Bernarda

Nesrin Kurt

Writing a limerick

by Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Hi, Sabo. Can you explain what is a limerick, please? Thank you.

by Alice Nascimento

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Alice Nascimento

Milena Cvetkova

Combining creative writing and STEM. I have used various ideas for creative writing. The latest is a set of trading cards created by the students for one of our Erasmus and etwinning projects. The categories are personalities, places and recipes and also curiosities and random magical words that ... more

by Loredana Popa

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Maria Pagliarulo

Sabo Ancuta

on one piece of paper every student has to write a line, without the others to know what she/he has written. each one writes the line, fold the paper and pass it on . in the end the paper is undo and the text is read aloud.

by nicoleta maxim

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Nurcan Uysal

Sabo Ancita Ramona

EXAMPLE EVENT

by NESLİHAN UÇAROĞLU/TURKEY

I'm a primary school teacher. I practice creative writing once a week. Every week, my class has... more

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Mário Miguel Guedes

Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Using Story Cubes to create a story

by Alina Haiduc

There are many ways to use Rory's Story Cubes to generate stories. After a while, you might come ... more

Great idea, especially for my extra English lessons with more motivated learners. I use them too.

by Bernarda Kejžar

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Maria

THE FAIRY TALES I often use fairy tales to propose creative and amusing variations. The best-known fairy tales are known to all children and, therefore, I propose to turn them into tasty recipes, or in impossible interviews, sometimes in phone calls and even in radio interviews. Kids have a lot... more

by Maria Pagliarulo Italy

Good idea! I will use it! :)

by Alina Haiduc

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

Change the end of a story

by Davide Fiorito

Last year I attended a English workshop for teachers. They showed us Romeo and Juilet goldfish ve... more

I love changing stories' ends, it makes students think and it gives them a sort of right to "drea... more

by Ema

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Ancuta Ramona Sabo

animals magazine

by MJ Verdú, Spain

By the time, I'm running a project about creating an animals magazine with my year 3 students. Th... more

That's a great idea for me and my major. Thanks.

by Nesrin Kurt

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Nesrin Kurt

a short story from a paiting of a local artist

by Simona Caucci, Italy

Within a eTwinning Project, our students have written a creative story starting from a paiting of... more

Great!

by Alice Nascimento

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Alice Nascimento

Storytelling...a work of words, things will become signs

by Claudia Murelli

Can you explain ?

by genevieve Mouthar

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Mindmapping- write down the task or problem. Then, expand on this problem by surrounding it by clusters of sub-ideas.Once your mind map has this first layer, add a second layer adding to your mind map using the steps above until you've sufficiently broken down your problem into manageable parts. ... more

by Alina Balan

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nurcan uysal

I like storytelling especially by using online tools, pictures and captions. Here is a link to a story I've created with my students for Halloween last year during an eTwinning project: https://youtu.be/Jvff4CRMLco

by Emiliana Rufo

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

My pupils love using the "Story Cubes" to make up silly funny and strange stories. Have you ever tried?

by Cristina Díaz

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Bernarda Kejžar

Connect the pictures

by Ema Šmid

Students work in groups. One student in each group is blindfolded, they pull five photos from you... more

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Bernarda

I show an interesting picture to my pupils and ask them to write a story for it.They work as a group and we choose the best one.

by Hafize Şule Kahya

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Özlem eren

I also use creative writing in my Spanish literature lessons. Last year, for example, I asked students to write instructions for doing ordinary actions (based on "Instrucciones para llorar" by Cortázar); I asked them to realise an advertisement for a potato (based on "Oda al tomate" by Neruda, th... more

by Elena Vita, Italy

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Alina Balan

I often use storytelling when I want to allow students to explore their own cultural roots and to help them consider new ideas

by lacramioara fira

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

I ask my children in primary school to rewrite a story turning the adjectives into their contrary. If you do it with advertisement the result can be very funny. I also use cards: I give them 5 picture cards (animals, things, places, a king, a girl…); I guide them to build the story by asking que... more

by Daniela Iuppo

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Ayten

Creative writing encourages pupils to start writing and to create new stories. A photo, a postcard a newspapper article could be the stimulus and the inspiration for authors.

by Pinelopi Diamantakou

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Ayten

word line

by Svetlana, Serbia

In the circle students writing a word that is connected to previous word with meaning. Goal - com... more

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Ayten

A very creative and funny idea to help students start their writing is to perform role-play relative to a chosen topic and this can inspire students .

by Katerina Dimou

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Pinelopi Diamantakou

I think creative writing can also enhance cross-curricular projects. For example English and Art. Last year I made my students choose a famous painter from the past, he/she had to be world-wide known. Then each student had to chose a painting by that artist and write a letter as if they were the ... more

by Elena Lissi

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Ayten

I think that by using SCAMPER technique creative writing can be created by improving students' creative thinking skills.

by hulya0119

S: Substitude C: Combine A: Adapt M: Modify, Minify, Magnify P: Put to other uses E: Elimina... more

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Ayten

Teacher or students find a funny article in the newspapers and then write diary entries from different points of view or roles. What the characters think, how they feel, they retell their side of the story. One of the students can also be a fly on the wall which sees and hears everything...

by MajaB

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Sabo Ancuta ramona

Modify songs

by Daniel Noffke

I teach in a primary school and I love modify lyrics of famous songs: we write "Rock around the w... more

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Alice Nascimento

Every photo tells a story

by Jana Kusterle

Students write a story based on a photo they've chosen - they individually decide which part of t... more

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

I work in a kindergarten, so I don't really use creative writing because preschoolers are only learning letters. However, I use various methods to create creative stories, fairy tales, stories. The basis are pictures that encourage self-telling. In older groups, children work in teams of several ... more

by Ania Bębenek

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

I had an activity with my students where the hand to write a collaborative story using famous books or movies characters such as Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson.They had to be creative but to find information too about different topics related to the time of the story. eg. jobs, kinds of clothe... more

by Cerasela Marleneanu

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona

The sub character and the onlooker/extra

by Mário Miguel Guedes

An writting activity I use to practice with my students is asking them to rewrite part of the sto... more

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Rita

Rewrite the story for younger children in a picture book or comic form

by Dragana Videnov

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona!

The character and scenario roulette are a great activity for group writing as motivation.

by Jorge Conde, Portugal

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Sabo Ancuta Ramona, Romania

Write from a Different Perspective Use a voice and background different from your own to write something unfamiliar and fresh.

by Aslı Çelik

I like your idea. Changing the perspectives and the frame can be very inspiring.

by Pinelopi Diamantakou

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For one of my projects from last school year, "FAIRY TELLING - Fairy tales, fables, myths, and short stories of the world", the students analyzed the Peter Pan fairy tale and saw a cartoon video based on the story. Then, they had to choose a character they liked the most and create acrostics. All... more

by Lidia Boje

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Create a story with photos.

by Sonia Ilieva

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Create a story with photos

by Sonia Ilieva

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I bring a newspaper to the classroom. I ask my students to use scissors to cut out every word from a paragraph. They put the words in a bag, mix them and then take out one word at a time, try to create a short poem/narrative story by using some of those words.

by Liliana Stoiculeț, Romania

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The story behind a photo - part 2

by Bernarda Kejžar

Prepare various photos (ex. Gettyimages), people of different ages, occupations and backgrounds, ... more

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The story behind a photo

by Bernarda Kejžar

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The impetus for creative writing can be any thing, place, or character. Sometimes I give a picture to the students and it creates a story. For example, a park bench, waves at sea, clouds ...

by Anita Rašić

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Using an object to start off

by Gitta

We did this task several times with an author who holds creative writing workshops at some school... more

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As a primary teacher in History I make my pupils to write coĺlaborative stories about Bulgarian history using different ICT tools.Ebooks are their favourite in which they can also record their voices.

by Ayten, Bulgaria

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The strangest dream. I like it. I ask student to feel free and write their strangest dreams. Meanwhile, they are so motivated and enthusiastic.

by Leyla Aliyeva

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A theatrical story with creative writing

by Elena Volpicella

This years with my class I’m working about Spiderman, an hero who struggle the evils to salve the... more

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A theatrical story with creative writing

by Elena Volpicella

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last year I had three classroom at first year of high school. we wrote a story using the strategy of the passing of the torch, but: one class developped the feminine character, another one the masculine character and the third class wrote the story since the two characters met. It was an activity... more

by Antonella Iallonardi

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Changing fairy tales

by Aneta Naumoska

I simply love fairy tales, and I try to incorporate them in my writing classes (Year 1 Uni studen... more

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Create your own story

by Elnara Khudaverdiyeva

Last month I asked my students to create their own stories. I divided class into four groups, han... more

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Last year I took part in a creative writing eTwinning project called AMIGOS EUROCÓMICOS, based on comics and social issues. Spanish students thought of a story and then we (Italians) continued it and together realised a first comic. Then, we imagined another story and they drew the second comic a... more

by Elena Vita, Italy

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ı show a picture to my students and want them to write a story for the picture.They work as a group and present their stories.We choose the best one.We share it on class board.

by Hafize Şule KAHYA,TURKEY

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school on Mars

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Every photo tells a story

by Jana Kusterle

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