Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children
Play with the word: riddles 2
A course by Luis Téllez Tejeda , Writer, children’s literature teacher, and scriptwriter
Joined September 2020
About the video: Play with the word: riddles 2
Overview
“We continue to explore this form of text that uses language for fun, challenge, and imagination. ”
In this video lesson Luis Téllez Tejeda addresses the topic: Play with the word: riddles 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children. Learn to play with words and discover new tools to create engaging texts that captivate the little ones .
Partial transcription of the video
“Play with the word: Riddles Now that I have reviewed different riddles and I have seen how they work, I am going to write some. I have decided to write about birds, so I am going to get closer to the topic, starting the guessing game. Perhaps the most interesting approach to write my first riddle let it be the comparison. I'm going to try to make a riddle in which I compare a bird with other elements from what the bird can do. I'm going to take my notebook and start writing that comparative riddle. The first sentence that occurred to me to write this riddle it is "travel to heaven without b...”
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Course summary for: Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Narrative, Script, Writing

Luis Téllez Tejeda
A course by Luis Téllez Tejeda
Luis Téllez Tejeda is a writer, children’s literature teacher, and scriptwriter. Over the last 15 years, he has focused on researching, amplifying, and promoting books for children. He has published texts with publishers like Oink, La Cifra, and La Dïéresis, and has written scripts for audiovisual media and shows for children. He has also taught courses and workshops on children’s literature in different institutions and independently.
He enjoys investigating the world in scientific books, exploring dictionaries, and analyzing everyday life to discover what lies beyond what we can see with the naked eye, which awakens his imagination and inspires him to write.
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