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.
form
content language
com
pact
& m
eani
ngfu
l
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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