There are many similarities and differences between writing fiction and writing about fiction. When you write about fiction, you are commenting on someone else’s story that has already been written. When you write fiction, you create your own world and are creative writing your own story. You can be really creative writing your own fiction. When I was writing about the story “Nomad and Viper” it had influenced a lot of my own personal writing. Thinking about plot, characters and point of view really helped me create my own story. I have always loved writing stories when I was a little kid. I was always very creative with every story I would write down on paper or told to a group of friends. I think that teaching fiction in the classroom is a great way for the students to be creative and have fun writing their own stories. The best way to do a unit on fiction is to go over the elements of fiction, introduce them to a few stories and then have them create their own stories. I had a great time creating my own story it has been a very long tie since I have sat down and created my own story. As a kid, I used to write new stories all the time. When creating your own stories, you can create any type of character and put them in any situation anywhere in the world. When I get to have my own classroom with students, I will have them write their own stories to see what they can create and how creative they can be when they write their own stories.
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I was the same way except my stories were and still are always very out there. I would just think of stories in my head and not write them down though. Anyway I also think it is a good idea to reinforce the ideas taught by literature by having the students write their own using specific techniques from the stories they read. Much like the myth teaching this will help the kids to know what the aspects of literature are. It also seems to me that the more a kid reads the better the writer they will be. So plenty of reading for students is a must. I did like writing my story and creating intensity was pretty fun.
I am glad to read that you, too, feel that creatibve writing is something you will incorporate in your calssroom. I only worry that with all the time that we as future teachaers will need to take out for standardized testing, whether we will even have time. Its scary to go into teaching having so many great ideas for students only to be faced by a wall of opposition.
I hope that all of us are lucky enough to go into an environment where our cretivity will not be stiffled and this way we can pass this kind of thinking on to our students.
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