Grammar and Creativity: Rationale

Standing back and taking an analytical view of language allows you to look at its elements - essential for academic study.  As a practitioner in the classroom, however, you have to deal with both teaching the rules and terminology, and, at the same time, encouraging an enthusiasm for writing.  The only way to do that is to draw upon the child's creativity and value what they have to put down on paper.  This is how the introduction to Grammar and Creativity describes the approach that characterises the four books:

Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader.  Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.

Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense.

This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing.  Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures.   The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.

For more information about the series for children aged seven to eleven years, go here: http://www.lcp.co.uk/grammar-and-creativity