children learn words and meanings first, but quickly want to express themselves in the things they do in their own writing. Yet one in four to 11 years old can not do satisfactorily.
The article examines some simple ways to transform your son or daughter into a famous writer using the concepts used to great books, plays, poems, songs and movies - start with a great idea and develop the story using storyboards sequence the story in stages or separate phases.
History of good writing
The best ancient authors used the same hooks in their writing that the best writers still use today. We call it a script. It can be a real or fictional story. But it must be well written novel, even if it is based on an old recipe.
The best recipes are love stories, dramatic events like wars and disasters, and, for children, fantasies. The best of each genre of tragedy or comedy, sometimes both, as in Shakespeare, as the central mechanism to tell the story.
So how do we learn to write well from childhood? Easy. Practice, practice practice - and especially, you find a good coach because the mechanics of writing in an interesting style comes through your work through an experienced eye and the ear. Listening to your work torn critical is the bane of the writing profession. So better use your own in critical early on - whether an older sibling or parent. They will help you work on your main idea and provide a critical look to test what works and does not work. Rework the idea, the text - is again and again the answer for most good writers who are published, which is often the pinnacle for many writers. Make money, let alone a lifetime, your writing is not even a dream for the majority.
not only should you write read, it is better if it also looks good to hear -. What makes the transition from page to screen play and the more easy to do
ancient Greek writers had to deal with their parts being made in lecture halls set in the countryside or in cities with urban distract the wandering eye. The best Greek writers were also philosophers who could wax lyrical on almost all topics of interest to the common man, who was himself often illiterate.
After the Romans conquered Greece, their writers basically reworked the same classic Greek stories and switched around slightly to reflect the power and intriguing of the hoi polloi Roman - people high - Caesars and Cleopatras their day. Their main development was to transform the amphitheater opened into one that was closed and the lifting of the step above ground level for the first time, fearing betrayal on foot.
There is a short trip in the time of Shakespeare when power, politics, love and comedy became the food of the masses. Shakespeare scholars well to learn the inner meaning of the written and spoken word, all on one level the meaning is clear, and often funny, there is always a sense or internal undercurrent running through his dramas, which meant they are almost universally suitable for each and every time. Just as the writings of Aristotle 2,000 years before him.
So how can you get your little shiny thing to be the 21st century the equal of Aristotle or Shakespeare
That they engage in intrigue, humor and the tragedy of life - and experience all at different levels - from the point of view of the person working at the height of the Princes, Princesses, kings and queens.
The best way to illustrate what is involved is to develop a new scenario. For children, this is best done first with a story they know and ask them to develop in a version with new characters, themes, settings and results.
Their biggest challenge is not the ideas - they bristle with multiple short scenarios -. But put them in a structure and a sequence that tells a story
Take a good look at most of the children "(under 12) stories, and there is usually not too many words. Photos are still a large part of the story for 6-12 year age group. By then, their imagination takes over and their range of reading materials can quickly become large. What happens during this period of development is that they learn the words, their vocabulary stories they read, and then use it to express their own ideas. Once they reach the end and see their words adorning the page, accompanied by the obligatory drawing of the characters in their story, they are hooked on writing. This is exactly what they have been reading and now use in their own learning to write. If they get anything published, as in the school newspaper, then they are often hooked to writing for publication as one of their chosen routes of recognition in their future, wider world.
Below an example of eight to rework the story of the servant girl turned princess who ends up marrying a future king. - A type plot Shakespearean writing a little person
A classic story of re-imagined in 2013
One day the sisters were invited to the ball.
Cinderella said, "Can I go too"
His wicked sisters? all said a big "no". "Why not?" sighed Cinderella. "Because you're too pretty" was their reply shouted.
Cinderella conducted with its tasks, when she heard a voice. "please do not cry," said the fairy of the ball. "I'll help you go to the ball."
And she did.
Cinderella arrived at the ball. The handsome prince Cinderella noticed standing on its own and asked if she wanted to dance. The kind, charming Prince met his dream of a charming girl and fell under the magic spell of Cinderella. He later asked to be his princess. And they live happily ever after ... with their twin babies -. A handsome boy, the other a spirited tomboy of a girl audacity
oldGeorgina McElroy 8, Year 4.
Some extremely popular books written for children
This selection is personal, eclectic. It is not a recommended reading list by age -. Your Language and Literature Teachers of English in school can give you
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and Matilda by Roald Dahl.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
- Peter Pan by JM Barrie.
- Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and through a mirror of Lewis Carol.
- Harry Potter by JK Rowling.
- The Bravest squirrel in the forest and squirrel Bravest ever by Sara Shafer.
- The Famous Five and The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton - she wrote 800 books for children 20 years old .
- The Chronicles Dragondomes by Lucinda Hare.