Why Creative Writing?
Creative Writing Workshops are a unique place for young writers to empower their artistic voice and create community.
In addition to crafting their very own original story, your young writer will learn to:
Empower their creative voice and gain artistic ownership
Expand imagination and empathy
Improve planning and structured thinking
Learn to critique and offer constructive criticism
Discover individual written style and voice
Sharpen writing skills to create tension and hold reader attention
Creative Writing Workshops
Creative writing session typically last from 1hr30 to 3 hours, and include:
Explicit teaching of story-craft elements (such as: dialogue, perspective and narrative voice, sentence structure, developing believable characters, world building, planning coherent plot, etc)
Free writing time (with 1-1 feedback and support from the writing tutor)
Sharing and critiquing of each other’s work
Break times with snack
Pricing ranges from $30-$50 per child per class, depending on the event offered.
Creative Writing for Schools
Creative Writing Workshops
Enrich the school week with a one-off creative writing field day.
All sessions include: an exploration of a short text (demonstrating examples of the session theme); a tutor-lead discussion and teaching of the story-craft element; free-writing time, with opportunity for 1-1 tutor feedback; sharing and critiquing of work in a ‘read aloud’ story circle
Sessions offered:
Plot Pot What makes a good story? What do stories need? Children will learn the basic elements of story plot, create an outline for a story, and write the opening scene. (Make it specific to the genre you are currently studying in class, or allow students to choose their genre)
Character Profile Who are you favourite characters? What makes them so compelling? Children will learn key elements of character, create their own compelling protagonist and antagonist, and write a scene in which these characters confront each other to get what they want.
Narrative Viewpoint Who is telling the story? What difference does perspective make? Children will explore several narrative viewpoints, assessing their relative merits, and write a scene that is written from multiple viewpoints. (Best for older students)
Dialogue Who is talking? How can dialogue improve a story? Children will learn grammatical rules for correct dialogue punctuation, discover how action beats and can improve the narrative, and write a scene where dialogue moves the story forward.
2 hr workshop: $350 per class
Curriculum Consultion
Bespoke consultancy services tailored to the needs of your school.
Toolkits offered:
The Phonics Pack Implementation of daily phonics routine to get students reading and writing at Grade level (and beyond).
The Story Pack Enrichment of the literacy curriculum through introduction of creative writing routines and reading circles.
Curriculum consultation includes:
Observation and assessment of current practices, feedback to school leadership with strategies moving forward
One or two professional development presentations for staff and parents
Weekly in-class interventions, push-in and pull-out style support for teachers implementing the new routines
Recourses, planning materials and assessment tools to keep for future reference
PRICING DEPENDING REQUIREMENTS.
