WORDS Posted: June 24, 20159:30 amThe authors, a growing group that already numbers 35, say that nat...

1. Claim: Is UK's Creative Writing Program Actually Making
Students' Writing Worse?
WORDS Posted: June 24, 20159:30 am
The authors, a growing group that already numbers 35, say that national curriculum assessment
criteria have become a "prescription for how to teach children to write (to pass the tests), with quite
adverse effects on their writing skills". This means, they say, that children are taught "not to use
simple words such as 'good', 'bad', 'small' or 'big' but to always find other more 'interesting' words to
replace them - such as 'wonderful', 'terrible', 'minuscule' or 'enormous'".
http://www.artsjournal.com/2015/06/claim-is-uks-creative-writing-program-actually-making-students-
writing-worse.html