1. Narrative, Drama and Creative Writing Workshop
GTP 2010

2. Aims
To participate in a drama and creative writing workshop and reflect on writing from personal experience
To begin to explore different approaches to teaching writing
To plan to address the needs of specific pupils when teaching creative and non-fiction writing

3. Britton’s continuum of language development
Transactional
Expressive
Poetic

4. Workshop Task
Develop the ideas suggested in this session to plan a lesson where you encourage the pupils to use personal experience as a stimulus for creative writing.
Choose a particular group of pupils to focus on:
Higher Ability pupils
Pupils with SEN or EAL

5. School based task-Creative Writing or writing in response to Drama
Either:
Write your own story, poem or play, produce your own media artefact or
b) Plan your drama regeneration lesson
Plan and teach the lesson
Evaluate the lesson in your folder using one of the QTS standards that is relevant to this experience

7. Writing in response to drama
Can you imagine the people who might live and work in this area?
How might this area be regenerated?
Post letter: What might be done to make the council reconsider?

8. Bibliography
King, C (2000) Can teachers empower pupils as writers? Moss, J and Davidson, J (Eds) Issues in English Teaching
Maybin, J (1994) Teaching Writing: Process or Genre? Brindley, S (Ed) Teaching English
Goodwyn, A (2008) Writing-don’t you mean spelling and grammar?
Neelands, J (1994) Writing in imagined contexts Brindley, S (Ed) Teaching English