Creative writing suggestions?

[blondeviolin]

My fifth grader is a very creative soul.  She loves to write and invent stories.  Sometimes the physical act of writing is a pain, but if she's got an idea she will quickly get past that because she loves writing stories.  I think she'd LOVE a creative writing course.  I looked at the Creative Writer, but I don't know what else is out there.  She loves animal stories and sometimes chafes at the idea of writing from a very specific prompt.  But prompts are helpful sometimes because she doesn't always have an idea readily availble.  

 

She's done three levels of WWE and can give narration and/or write dictation with fair ease.  She is writing summaries across the curriculum and working through Killgallon's Sentence Composing for Elementary School.  For expository writing, I am planning on taking her through WWS next year or so.  She's got a good grammar base thanks to FLL 1-4 and will be doing AG next year.  

 

She just wrote this little riddle for her sister on her break: "I have a friend that goes hop, hop, hop.  She's big and brown, but she doesn't stop a lot, lot, lot.  She has strong back legs, and she doesn't lay eggs.  What is she?  Well, that's up to me!  But she has a pouch with a little roo.  What is she? A kangaroo!"

[KristaJ]

My 5^th grader is also an avid writer, and she LOVES The Creative Writer.  It has really helped her fine tune her skills.  This week her assignment was to “eavesdrop†on conversations and record the dialogue, and she had a blast following her sisters around the house with a notepad.  We rotated between TCW1 and WWS1, so one week she works on creative writing and the next week on more academic writing.  Both have been a hit.  I haven’t looked at many other creative writing curricula, but I haven’t needed to.