Creative work in the form of an essay is one of the most interesting and difficult types of work for students throughout the years of school life. He is taught in direct preparation for each individual lesson in the development of speech, as well as in almost every lesson in literature, where students learn to reflect, analyze, formulate and express their thoughts, form their own point of view, work with critical material and additional literature. In the Russian language lessons, much attention is also paid to the development of speech and a sufficient number of hours is allocated.
Preparatory stage
Types of speech - narration, description, reasoning - are studied by schoolchildren in the elementary grades, but there they are given primary information. Then they begin to write miniature compositions (in 3-4 sentences). For kids, such a small task already seems difficult and requires considerable mental and creative efforts from them. When moving to high school, these topics “pop up” again (at a more serious theoretical and practical level). And writing essays allows you to well consolidate theoretical knowledge in practice, develops the ability of students to think logically and figuratively, expands the vocabulary of students, the ability to express themselves clearly, figuratively and competently when compiling coherent written texts on a free and proposed topic.
A teaching essay about the winter forest, for example, should help sixth graders learn how to write descriptive texts on a landscape theme and can be the final lesson to this block of classes. This is a classic example of texts of this type, and, perhaps, with appropriate preparation, the task will not cause any particular difficulties.
What is important at the preparatory stages, what points should you pay attention to? First of all, the creation of an appropriate emotional background.
- Firstly, children should be notified in advance that after a few lessons they will have to describe the winter forest so that they can pick up the appropriate material: poems about winter, interesting landscape sketches. The teacher can advise individual poems by Yesenin, Nekrasov, the stories of Prishvin, Bianka, Sokolov-Mikitov, etc. Approximately two or three lessons before writing in each lesson should be allocated 15-20 minutes (you can relate to the current topic) and listen to what students picked up examples of landscape poetic and prosaic lyrics. It is absolutely necessary to have a conversation about how the winter masters see the words, what pictures are drawn in the imagination of schoolchildren, what they imagine, what associations are born. This stage is very important. On it, children “turn on” their creative thinking, join the process of verbal drawing. In fact, they learn to think in images. Moreover, in reality, few of them saw a real winter forest from them. But the teacher can advise taking a walk in the park, observing the state of nature: sounds, smells, colors, sunlight at different times of the day, listening to your feelings and moods, and then asking the children to compare their perception of the winter landscape. This will also enrich the impressions of students.
- Pupils of grades 5-6 are only learning to disengage. In order to make the presented paintings brighter, it is absolutely necessary to hang several reproductions in the classroom, which depict the winter forest described in the essay. Naturally, they should be studied, analyzed in advance, so that students can feel the atmosphere, get used to it, feel the special beauty of winter nature.
Lesson Notes
During the speech development lesson itself, you can quietly turn on background music. Well suited, for example, Tchaikovsky (his "Seasons"). Music will help to create the right mood, will set the guys in an emotional lyrical mood and, at the same time, will help to concentrate. It will be more interesting for them to describe the winter forest, the composition will turn out to be emotional, bright, saturated.