This comprehensive set of writing ‘tools’, which consists of six key skills covering 21 elements, is set to give your child a strong foundation in writing and empower him/her to ace even the most demanding writing exercises throughout his/her school years.
1. Syntax Construction Tools
Your child will master the following elements that affect syntax construction:
1. Syntax Construction Tools
Your child will master the following elements that affect syntax construction:
2. Language Enhancement Tools
Through observation and description games, your child will be encouraged to use ‘generative’ questions to create detail when describing objects and actions.
Characters in stories have feelings that draw out empathy and awareness of social issues. Your child will learn to put himself/herself in the characters’ shoes and bring the emotions of the characters to life.
Branching out from emotive writing, your child will learn to write and express how a character feels in different situations. This will help your child to convey feelings and give life to his/her characters.
Your child will go from merely telling the story to showing what really takes place, which works wonders to immerse readers into his/her story. Lesson highlights include learning to write descriptions in different ways while drafting his/her story.
Explorations with figurative language will develop your child’s powers of written expression. Through games and activities, you child will be introduced to similes, common metaphors, idioms and proverbs as models for creating figurative language in his/her own writing.
3. Planning and Structuring Tools
To help your child bring his/her writing to the next level, this set of tools helps to support the basic framework of writing through the following areas:
Your child will learn about different writing genres such as narrative, poetry, instructional/informational, descriptive and opinion pieces. He/she will discover and understand the different elements that make up each form of writing.
An important part of story writing is knowing how to organise the ideas in a structured way. This typically involves brainstorming and asking the right questions before laying them out in the most effective form. Your child will learn how to structure the events of his/her stories through games, activities and group writing exercises.
2. Language Enhancement Tools
Through observation and description games, your child will be encouraged to use ‘generative’ questions to create detail when describing objects and actions.
Characters in stories have feelings that draw out empathy and awareness of social issues. Your child will learn to put himself/herself in the characters’ shoes and bring the emotions of the characters to life.
Branching out from emotive writing, your child will learn to write and express how a character feels in different situations. This will help your child to convey feelings and give life to his/her characters.
Your child will go from merely telling the story to showing what really takes place, which works wonders to immerse readers into his/her story. Lesson highlights include learning to write descriptions in different ways while drafting his/her story.
Explorations with figurative language will develop your child’s powers of written expression. Through games and activities, you child will be introduced to similes, common metaphors, idioms and proverbs as models for creating figurative language in his/her own writing.
3. Planning and Structuring Tools
To help your child bring his/her writing to the next level, this set of tools helps to support the basic framework of writing through the following areas:
- Genre Writing
- Organisation and Story Structuring
Your child will learn about different writing genres such as narrative, poetry, instructional/informational, descriptive and opinion pieces. He/she will discover and understand the different elements that make up each form of writing.
An important part of story writing is knowing how to organise the ideas in a structured way. This typically involves brainstorming and asking the right questions before laying them out in the most effective form. Your child will learn how to structure the events of his/her stories through games, activities and group writing exercises.
4. Story Building Tools
To add life to his/her stories and characters, your child will learn to write dialogues, use speech in writing and how speech differs from prose.
5. Polishing Tools
6. Higher-Order Thinking Tools
Your child also needs to apply analytical thinking as he/she learns to plan, research and draft stories. This is done through self-reflection, peer feedback and rewriting from different perspectives.
No. 4Story Building Tools
To add life to his/her stories and characters, your child will learn to write dialogues, use speech in writing and how speech differs from prose.
No. 5Polishing Tools
Programme Details
Developed to complement the MOE curriculum, our writing programme helps your child to understand the craft of writing and its creative aspects. Using an experiential and imaginative approach to learning, your child will work on developing key language skills, written expression and creative thinking.
Each level of our writing programme focuses on different areas of writing, all of which are covered in the primary school English syllabus.
- Learn the various components that make up a sentence, i.e. verbs and adjectives
- Explore different perspectives in writing stories
- Plan a story line and write stories based on own ideas
- Write short descriptive paragraphs and explore different ways of starting a story
- Try out different types of writing: poems, riddles and social media posts
- Learn to use descriptive words in writing
- Use verbs and adjectives in the right context
- Explore different perspectives in writing stories
- Write stories based on own experiences
- Organise the various parts of a story and rewrite based on peer feedback
- Create storyboards to highlight parts of a story
- Learn to write descriptively and persuasively
- Explore different perspectives in writing stories
- Rewrite stories with own ideas and bring out the emotions of characters
- Use rhyming words to write poems
- Tap on various stimuli to plan stories
- Identify cause-and-effect in stories
- Use playful language and emotions when describing characters and write simple emotion poems
- Pick up the basics of first- and third-person narratives
- Write sentences that describe the senses
- Learn how to make stories stand out when writing under pressure
- Explore the possible ways of ending a story
- Describe subjects and characters with emotions
- Write a journal to document thoughts and emotions
- Write simple first- and third-person beginnings to stories
- Use senses as a stimulus to write
- Create new story ideas by asking open-ended questions
- Add twists to make stories engaging and extend story ideas by writing a persuasive speech
- Learn to polish, edit and refine written works
- Develop the skillset needed to ace the examination components of Continuous Writing and Situational Writing
- Learn how to generate great story ideas and expand them using highly descriptive and figurative language
- Enhance creative and critical thinking skills to approach a wide array of writing tasks
- Acquire an in-depth understanding of narrative structure and how to plan a good story (Introduction, Rising Action, Climax etc.)
- Analyse model compositions and apply learnings to refine written work over multiple drafts
- Develop the skillset needed to ace the PSLE components of Continuous Writing and Situational Writing
- Learn how to generate great story ideas and expand them using highly descriptive and figurative language
- Enhance creative and critical thinking skills to approach a wide array of writing tasks
- Acquire an in-depth understanding of narrative structure and how to plan a good story (Introduction, Rising Action, Climax etc.)
- Analyse model compositions and apply learnings to refine written work over multiple drafts
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Hear from Other Parents
“The techniques learnt in MindChamps Writing have come in handy as Cayla uses them for creative writing in school. We have seen improvements in her written composition. She continues to apply the techniques even after graduating from the programme – both in English and Chinese writing.” Read More
– Kee Wee Fong, mother of Cayla Chia Yen
“The distinct aspect of the MindChamps Writing programme is that it focuses on cultivating a child’s ability to write by inspiring him/her to express his/her thoughts in words, rather than by telling him/her what to write, which stifles the imagination in the process.” Read More
– Lu Yan, parent of Kenan Ngor
Hear from Other Parents
“The techniques learnt in MindChamps Writing have come in handy as Cayla uses them for creative writing in school. We have seen improvements in her written composition. She continues to apply the techniques even after graduating from the programme – both in English and Chinese writing.”
– Kee Wee Fong, mother of Cayla Chia Yen
“The distinct aspect of the MindChamps Writing programme is that it focuses on cultivating a child’s ability to write by inspiring him/her to express his/her thoughts in words, rather than by telling him/her what to write, which stifles the imagination in the process.”
– Lu Yan, parent of Kenan Ngor