Creating Written Stories for Primary School Students Based on Personalized Mnemonics: The Case of One Lithuanian School

Today, literacy is defined much more broadly, i.e., as the enabling ability to recognize, understand, interpret, create, and use various written materials in different contexts. Creative writing skills are developed in primary school, but it is difficult for students to express their thoughts in writing. This article presents how personalized creative writing prompts can help primary school students with different abilities improve their Lithuanian & General P narrative writing skills. Third-grade students (N = 14) from a private school in a large city participated in the study. An action research approach was applied, preceded by a diagnostic assessment of students’ creative writing skills, during which the essays were written without the aid of prompts. The experiences of each student were also described, as the children composed written narratives using prompts. After analysing the students’ work, progress was noted in all areas of text creation: from the use of vivid language elements in writing, the use of connecting words in sentences, to corrected spelling and punctuation errors.