The final test for a student’s language skills usually rests on his creative writing abilities. He language seems to follow a defined natural laws or patterns which Maria Montessori termed as ‘the natural laws of devlopment’. The acquisition of language occurs over a period of time and the more opporunities he gets to express himself in school or at home, the better will be his chance of developing an interest to pen down his thought in writing.

This is a piece of creative writing practice from an 8 year old child wh happens to be quite imaginative and expressive. She was asked to write about  80 words based on the pictures given. She ended up with 167 words. Towards the end of her story,you will see she takes herself away into a path of imagination. “The parents followed the tracks and found their son lying  on a hospital bed. He had not been seen for 2 weeks.” Well in real world, we would have expected the parents to file a missing person report to the police!