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Developing Creative Writing is a fun and, as the title implies, creative course during which delegates can look forward to a day crammed with loads of practical and interesting activities which will enhance pupil writing skills. We begin by understanding and using the concept of freewriting to develop fluency of ideas. We then explore the story-method approach to spelling and look at how circle time activities can improve writing expression. We examine the “Why, why, why” method of story planning, and discover how prediction exercises can improve story endings. The GAMES approach to story planning is used to show how effective planning can lead to improve confidence in writing. We also take a look at how descriptive writing can be aligned to vocabulary enrichment, and consider various “maps” to enhance argumentative writing. The day ends with a consideration of grammar skills and how sentence analysis can be applied to the construction of paragraphs.

Who’s it for?

This course is suitable for all KS1 and KS2 teachers, and classroom assistants.

Aims and Objectives

• To provide teachers with practical and instantly useable ideas and strategies to improve writing across both key stages
• To enable teachers to create writing tasks that allow students to develop key writing skills
• To inspire teachers to develop their own writing skills and to use their knowledge to assist students to do better
• To show teachers how writing can be enhanced through better planning, circle time, spelling and thinking activities

What you will receive

• An amusing, entertaining, informative and uplifting experience
• An opportunity to share ideas across key stages
• A useful in-course workbook, with templates and notes
• A teacher reflective journal, which allows teachers to turn good ideas from courses into regular good practice

Content of the Course

• How freewriting develops fluency of ideas
• The story method of spelling
• The why, why, why method of planning
• The Games method of planning
• Using circle time to improve writing
• Developing prediction skills
• How to use summary sentences
• Using the bridge map to plan for argumentative writing
• Developing descriptive writing
• Basic grammar explained

Benefits

• Teachers will gain confidence in and mastery of their own writing skills
• Teachers will be armed with a range of useful and pupil-friendly activities
• Teachers will have a great deal of fun and can expect to laugh a lot during the course
• Ideas, strategies and methods are instantly useable and teachers will not have to spend time re-inventing the wheel.

Logistics

The presenter of this course will require a screen, a CD player, a bottle of water, and a room of eager minds. The course is suitable to groups of up to 100 teachers.

Session 1: 9am – 11am
Session 2: 11:30 am – 1:30pm
Session 3: 2:00pm – 3:30pm