How to Teach School Students to Produce Creative Writing in English

Abstract

The relevance of the article is conditioned by the insufficient effort taken at school to teach students to produce different types of writing in English with the exception of the informal letter and essay in the State Exam format. The article deals with the issue of training students to create a simple coherent text (story). The authors define the concept and specify the structure of a simple coherent text (story). The problems that students face are thoroughly analyzed and the authors suggest effective ways of coping with the problems that students experience while writing stories in English. The article describes teaching methods that assist students to excel at creative writing. The aim of the article is to make school teachers aware of the necessity to develop students’ writing skills in terms of storytelling.