How to prepare students of the 6th grade for the composition-description of the winter forest?

Creative work in the form of an essay is one of the most interesting and challenging types of work for students throughout all the years of school life. His training takes place with the direct preparation for each individual lesson in the development of speech, and also practically in every class on literature where students learn to think, analyze, formulate and express their thoughts, form their own point of view, work with critical material and additional literature. At the lessons of the Russian language, attention is also given to the development of speech and a sufficient number of hours are given.

Preparatory stage

Types of speech - narration, description, reasoning - are studied by schoolchildren even in primary classes, but there they are given primary information. Then they begin to write compositions-miniatures (in 3-4 sentences). For babies, such a small task already seems complicated and requires considerable mental and creative effort from them. When moving to secondary school, these topics "float up" again (at a more serious theoretical and practical level). And the writing of essays makes it possible to consolidate theoretical knowledge in practice, develops the ability of schoolchildren to think logically and figuratively, expands the vocabulary of students, the ability to express themselves vividly, figuratively and competently when composing coherent written texts on a free and proposed topic.

The training essay on the winter forest, for example, should help the sixth graders learn how to compose texts-descriptions on a landscape theme and can be the final lesson to this block of studies. This is a classic example of texts of this type, and, perhaps, with appropriate preparation, the task will not cause any special difficulties.

What is important in the preparatory stages, at what points should I pay attention? First of all, creating an appropriate emotional background.

• First, children should be informed in advance that in 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. Teacher can advise individual poems Esenina, Nekrasov, stories Prishvin, Bianchi, Sokolov-Mikitov, etc. For about two or three lessons before writing in each lesson, it is necessary to allocate 15-20 minutes (you can link to the current topic being studied) and listen to what Examples of landscape poetic and prosaic lyrics students picked. It is necessary to hold a conversation about how the winter forest sees the masters of the word, what pictures are drawn in the imagination of schoolchildren, what they imagine, what associations are born. This stage is very important. On it, children "include" their creative thinking, join in the process of verbal drawing. In fact, they learn to think in images. Moreover, in reality, few people have seen a real winter forest from them. But the teacher can advise you to walk around the park, observe the state of nature: sounds, smells, colors, sunlight at different times of the day, listen to your feelings and moods, and then ask the children to compare their perception of the winter landscape. This will also enrich the impressions of schoolchildren.
• Pupils of the 5th-6th grades only learn to abstract. To represent the pictures were brighter, in the classroom, you must hang some reproductions, which depicts described in the composition of the winter forest. Naturally, they should be studied in advance, analyzed, so that students can imbue with the atmosphere, get used to it, feel the special beauty of the winter nature.

Notes to the lesson

During the lesson on the development of speech, you can quietly turn on background music. Well suited, for example, Tchaikovsky (his "Seasons"). Music will help create the right mood, set the guys to emotional lyrical harmony and, at the same time, help to focus. It will be more interesting for them to describe the winter forest, the composition will turn out to be emotional, bright, and saturated.