StitchinNola

Those are excellent topics for a boy to write about! I should add a disclaimer myself; I am a homeschooler who doesn't teach "creative" writing. At all. It's not a skill that will be required beyond grade school. Knowing how to summarize a story and get those thoughts out on paper in a coherent manner is a very important skill, though. His grades clear through college will depend on it.

My kids get most of their writing topics from history and science. When they're learning new writing skills I encourage them to pick a topic they already know forward and backward, so they can focus on the new writing skill alone, instead of the new skill and the content at the same time. Today my oldest was learning a new aspect of telling a story in his English text. His story is a rewrite of a scene from an action movie he really likes. Next time this concept comes up, he'll pull a story from the history he's been studying instead.

For my 7yo boy, I find he can write *much* more if I let him dictate it to me, first. As he comes up with it, I say it back to him (fixing any grammar issues as I do so) to make sure I have it right, then I write it down. Once in awhile he'll ask me to write a story he's made up, and I'll end up writing two full notebook sheets, front and back, with his words. Usually he just narrates the things we've read and learned about. He's starting to write some of them himself, but will do better if I write the first couple sentences first. Next school year, his third grade year, he'll use an actual writing curriculum that will have him rewriting stories from masters of English such as Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson and even Bible passages.