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Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of training first year secondary school student on developing their creative writing skills . The subject of the study were 120 first year secondary school students ( two classes from Minia Military Secondary School for Boys and two classes from New Secondary School for Girls ). The two classes from each school were randomly assigned to the experimental and the control groups . The students of the experimental group were trained in a program of creative writing skills through the use of some writing strategies which were : Story Mapping , Cluster Diagram , and Questioning . The content used was based on short stories and texts which are normally assigned in the students’ textbooks to be taught during the first school term . Tools of the study included two questionnaires , one to determine the creative writing skills and another to determine writing strategies developing creative writing skills , a training program to develop creative writing skills of first year secondary school students , and pre-post creative writing test . The results revealed that the experimental group significantly surpassed the control group in the post test of creative writing skills , and girls of the experimental group significantly surpassed boys of the same group in the post test of the creative writing skills. Discussion of these findings , recommendations and suggestions for further research were presented .