Creativity and Writing
Teresa Grainger, Kathy Goouch and Andrew Lambirth
This accessible yet authoritative book considers and encourages flexible, playful and innovative practices in the teaching of writing, and shows how certain practices develop childen’s creative and linguistic potential and their overall skill as writers. Illustrated throughout with examples of children’s writing and drawing, this book is divided into three sections:
- Part one provides a context for creativity in writing and introduces some of the theoretical background. The role of talk in the social processes of writing is considered and explored as an artistic phenomenon in its own right.
- Part two considers approaches which imaginatively develop ‘voice and verve’ in the writing classroom. By showing how childen can stretch their spoken and written artistic voices, their range of fiction, drama, poetry and oral storytelling skills can be further developed.
- Part three encompasses the role of teachers as fellow ‘artists’ and gives examples of teachers developing their own ‘voice and verve’ are examined. By looking closely at the characteristics of creative teachers, who take risks and interpret curricula imaginatively, the authors show how this potential lies in all teachers, whatever their experience.
Any teacher, literacy coordinator or student teacher wanting their pupils to become writers who communicate with power and passion will find this book nothing short of inspirational.
Published by Routledge
ISBN-10: 0 415 32885 3
Format: Paperback
Published in 2004
