Creative approach to teaching writing in junior grades of elementary school

Ovaj diplomski rad bavi se primarno jezičnom djelatnošću pisanja. Jezične djelatnosti slušanja, govorenja, čitanja i pisanja okosnica su novog Kurikuluma nastavnog predmeta Hrvatski jezik za osnovne škole i gimnazije koji je objavljen 2019. godine. U početnoj nastavi hrvatskoga jezika ključno je razvijati sve četiri jezične djelatnosti. Pisanje, kao najkompleksnija jezična djelatnost, koja uključuje jezično primanje (recepciju) i jezičnu proizvodnju (produkciju), često djeci predstavlja velike probleme u nastavi hrvatskoga jezika. Učenici u školi pišu ponekad i previše, u sklopu svakog nastavnog predmeta pa su često nezainteresirani i nemotivirani za kreativno pisanje. U nastavi pisanja učitelji bi trebali koristiti jezične igre ili druge motivacijske aktivnosti koje će učenike bolje pripremiti za pisanje i motivirati ih da razvijaju kreativnost i maštu. Istraživanje koje je provedeno za potrebe pisanja ovoga rada ima za cilj ispitati stavove učitelja o poučavanju pisanja u nastavi hrvatskoga jezika. Istraživanje je provedeno u obliku anketnog upitnika koji je riješilo 66 učitelja razredne nastave. Očekivalo se da učitelji koriste kreativan pristup poučavanju pisanja te su u skladu s tim rezultati pokazali da učitelji koriste razne jezične igre i motivacijske aktivnosti kojima motiviraju svoje učenike za jezičnu djelatnost pisanja.This master thesis primarily focuses on language activity of writing. New elementary and high school curriculum for Croatian language classes lists language activities of listening, speech, reading and writing as its crucial parts. All four language activities should be included from early on stages of teaching the language. Writing, as the most complex language activity, includes both reception and production of language and often becomes a challenging task for young students. Students tend to spend too much time writing in every other class and this results in no interest or motivation for tasks such as creative writing in Croatian language class. Language games and other motivational activities that develop student's creativity and imagination should be included in teaching students how to write. Purpose of the research that was conducted for this thesis was to find out what teachers think about current methods of teaching writing in Croatian language class. Research was conducted in a form of a questionare that 66 elementary school teachers from various schools filled out. It was assumed that teachers tend to use creative approaches when it comes to teaching writing and results have showed that teachers do use different language games and other motivational activities in order to motivate students for language activity of writing