Teaching Creative Writing to Children by Using Storybooks as Learning Materials
Teaching Creative Writing to Children by Using Storybooks as Learning Materials Creative writing in children practices broader thinking and will certainly affect communication so that when speaking the selection of words spoken is quite good because it has been trained to write creatively. In terms of creative writing, the most relevant genre to learn is narrative. Because it involves both fiction and nonfiction elements in its structure, creation in stories should be done more often than other works. This is because narrative is one of the literary genres that children at a certain age start to be interested in. Children begin to recognize narrative texts when listening to stories, tales and jokes from adults. Therefore, the use of fiction reading for children is very significant in terms of creative writing. According to Aktaş (2003) Creative writing is based on the purpose of creating a fictional world. Fiction is an art form that processes materials extracted from certa...