
Hey Diddle Diddle






Overview
It's the Year of the Ox and this Chinese New Year, our students will be inspired by stories and rhymes of cows and oxen. In the famous nursery rhyme, "Hey Diddle Diddle", the cow jumped over the moon, but the questions is WHY? In this holiday creative writing and publishing workshop, students will reveal the true stories of what happened that day... (As with all our online publishing workshops, the group sessions will be followed by a 30-min one-on-one session for each student. For the CNY workshops, these will be scheduled on Feb 19.)
Learning objectives
As a writer:
- Be introduced to ECP process of writing, revising and publishing a story
- Stretch creative thinking and take creative risks
- Become aware of the disconnect between what the writer knows/imagines and what the reader knows if it’s not written down
- Express ideas with detail
- Follow a simple story structure
- Sequence ideas logically and step-by-step
- Use vocabulary that they know in their writing
- Improve writing skills through individualised feedback from the teacher
- Correct identified technical errors in their work to prepare writing to be published
- Develop creativity and collaboration through a workshop environment
- Learn to look at own work critically and consider how to improve it
- Learn to be open to and respond to constructive feedback
- Gain confidence as a writer by writing and publishing a story in a booklet for a real audience
Creative Writing & Publishing
For children aged
6 to 8
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