Awesome Writing Skills Course

This is a fun course where children will be practicing writing skills. 

The goal of this course is to have fun while writing and grow in skills that will help students gain confidence in their abilities. One major aim of the course is to create a platform from which students develop the knowledge, writing skills, and experiences they need to grow as competent and enthusiastic writers. 


By the end of this class children will have grown in experience and confidence in answering comprehension work and earn a digital certificate!

Week One – An introduction to writing an informational report. 

* Students can pick a topic of their choice that meets their parent's / guardian’s approval. From animals to space to sport to a favorite computer game. 
- Skills covered - planning a report / vocabulary skills / speaking practice / text features
- Writing about what students know a lot about or are passionate about or interested in. 
- Thinking about the audience who will read their writing. 

Week Two

- Headings - subheadings - topics - subtopics 
- Planning a paragraph.
- Pictures to use 
- Technical vocabulary
- Writing an informational report.

Week 3 

How to write an adventure story. 

This is an exciting two weeks! We are now moving into the realms of fiction! Have you read an exciting adventure story recently? How about a wonderful adventurous movie or film? This week and next, you will be planning your own adventure story with help from me!

- Elements of an adventure story
- Reflecting on good adventure story models - sharing ideas and experiences of great writing and film
- Creating engaging dialogue 
- using 3 -ed words to create wonderful paragraph openers.
- Planning characters / setting / hook / high point ./ 
- Writing first draft / sending a video with first part of story 

Week Four 
- How to revise the story
- Reflecting upon story elements - all loose ends tied up / resolution
- The final draft.

Learning Schedule: 

Wednesday - Pre-recorded video posted
Friday - Work submitted 
Monday - Review and Feedback 

Children are welcome to be as creative as they like with the presentation of their answers after completing their activities. 

Really looking forward to meeting you all!

Children are welcome to email and ask questions and clarification throughout the week. 

I will be providing clear feedback and next goals to children weekly. 

This is a FLEX class, a video will be uploaded to the Outschool Platform weekly on the day of class. In a FLEX schedule class, there are class video instructions, discussion boards, Jamboard activities where students will be encouraged to contribute, links / codes provided to resources based on area of learning, and activities, posted weekly where students interact with each other within the Outschool classroom. All material will be posted within the platform unless indicated elsewhere such as Google Slides / Jamboard / docs or Nearpod but will be accessed through Outschool. 

Students can post videos, their own videos and or photos and respond to each other. Every class will be different in size depending on enrollment so the amount of interaction and discussion will vary. Students have the option to reply to discussion and posts at times thats suit their time zone and schedule as students will be from all over the world. 

Children can also handwrite assignments as well as record video responses and use their illustration talents to get their message across. Some of the most exciting websites, videos and books are full of creative presentation. 

This class will also encourage lots of talking opportunities- the better talkers we are the better writers we become. Talking through our writing helps to plan for good content. Children can send audios or videos via the Outschool platform to talk through their plans or to ask questions if they prefer to writing. 

As the lesson teacher, I will respond in a variety of ways such as video so that students or written feedback. I also will respond to every student within 24 hours of their posting. I will provide an evaluation at the end of the course and give feedback along the way. 

Asynchronous learning, learning that is not live face to face with a classroom teacher, is becoming more a more popular as it allows for differing schedules and for you to access this lesson no matter what time zone you. are residing in!