Creativity Techniques: Writing for Children
Play with the word: tongue twisters
A course by Luis Téllez Tejeda , Writer, children’s literature teacher, and scriptwriter
Joined September 2020
About the video: Play with the word: tongue twisters
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you two other types of word games: tongue twisters and never-ending stories. These ways of approaching language for fun have been present for centuries in different cultures and, as you will see, in addition to being a game, they can help you structure short stories and will help you unleash your creativity, using language freely and fun. ”
In this video lesson Luis Téllez Tejeda addresses the topic: Play with the word: tongue twisters, 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: Tongue twisters In this lesson I will show you two other types of word games so that you continue to develop your creativity, so that you keep letting your imagination fly and above all so that you continue to play with language, which is the raw material of the text you are going to write. We will see the tongue twisters and the never ending tales. The tongue twister is a chain of words, a chain of sounds that resemble to make pronunciation difficult. "Erre con erre, cigar, erre con erre, barrel, fast run the loaded wheels of the railroad car. " Although it seems to mak...”
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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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