Improve Your Writing, One Class at a Time

Do you want to improve your child's writing through fun and engaging activities? This on going writing class is just the ticket to improve skills and engage your child in the writing process.

You can expect to learn different writing forms including journaling, creative writing, summary, expository writing, personal essay, biography, defined question, poetry forms, persuasive writing and more. In addition, we will learn how to craft an essay, the elements of story, what makes writing persuasive, tone, theme, word choice, and basic grammar.

These ongoing sessions will normally be structured as follows: introduction, warm-up writing activity, mini-lesson on one of the topics listed above, guided writing practice and structured writing.

Course sessions will follow these topics:

Week of July 6: Writing Strong Paragraphs
Week of July 13: Topic Sentences
Week of July 27: Writing Process 1
Week of August 3:Writing Process II
Week of August 10: Creative Writing
Week of August 17: Writing a Non-fiction summary
Week of August 27: Writing a fiction summary
Week of September 6 : Compare & Contrast
Week of September 13: Persuasive Writing
Week of September 20: Personal Essay
Week of September 27: Descriptive Writing
Week of October 5: Response to Literature

This class will be very interactive. It will include discussion, lecture, media, brainstorming and individual and group writing practice. Homework will be assigned and work will be turned in between sessions.

Students should have a good grasp of English and be willing to work outside of class to get the most out of this class.