Creativity in Teaching English Reading and

Writing

The Royal Thai Distance Learning Foundation with support from the

American Embassy RELO Office and TOT

What is in the box?

Review: Session 1

What did you discuss in the previous session?

Prior experience

Assumptions

Belief systems

Completed ideas

Pre-determined solutions

What someone says is ‘right’ or ‘true’

Review: Session 1

Classroom Applications

Review: Session 1

What did you do in your classes?

What worked?

What didn’t work?

What did you do to make it work?

POETRY

LEASE

PEN THE BOX.

NJOY

HE JOURNEY.

EADY

OURSELF.

Welcome to Session 2

Word Splash!

With a partner, look at the following picture carefully.Write as many words with 1-3 syllables

as you can in 2 minutes.

Word Paint!

With the same partner, pick FIVE ofthe words that best

conveys the meaning of the picture.

What do you feel?see?

taste?hear?smell?

What does it remind you of?

Haiku• Japanese form of

poetry

• 17 syllables (5-7-5) and a Kigo* (‘season’)

• nature, feelings, experiences, every day things

• imagery & senses

As the wind does blow

Across the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

UCLA Asia Institute

What senses are awakened in the haiku above?

What picture do you see in your head when you read this?

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

An old silent pond...

splash! Silence again.

by Matsuo Basho

• Which word or words help(s) you paint this picture in your head?

• What do you think this is about? Why?

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

by Matsuo Basho

Painting A Mental Picture

YOUR TURN

On your own or with a new partner,write a haiku inspired by the following picture.

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content language

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& m

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precise & sim

ple

How can you find your voiceas a writer?

EXPERIENCE and VOICEengaging and reshaping

observing the world

transformation and innovation

(Grainger, Goouch, Lambirth)

multimodal and multicultural

autonomy and choice

Unfinished Haikus

With a partner, complete the missing linesof haikus in your handout.

Please prepare to share it.

Exquisite Haikus

Groups of three people.

Each write a specific haiku line.

Don’t show it.

After all are done and put together, does it make sense?

Why or why not?

Experience & VoiceYour Thoughts

Writing poetry is .... because ....

This helps me with my language because...

This helps me with my creativity because...

• What are some new ideas and perspectives have you learned?

• What can you adapt and apply to your overall teaching?

• What will you try in your classrooms soon?

Teaching Implications

Korp Khun Mak Ka

Thank you very much andSee you in the next session!

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