Reading and Writing Club 101.

I'm super excited and will be resuming this class in February 2023.

**Taught by a fully certified; qualified English Language and Literature Specialist**.

Reading and writing are both important; you can't have one without the other.

They are skills that are increased constantly due to little things that most times are not noticed. Whether it is from a book to a poem there will always be a way that it helps out your learner's school performance. 

I believe we write first and then we read, and the more you read what you write the more you get better at writing.

The focus of this course is to in equal balance, and use reading alongside writing, to improve your learner's writing. I will coach your learners to read their writing and to edit and improve their written work.

Additionally, we will look at hand-picked written pieces, and learn how to read for meaning. We will look at how writers use language for effect, and structure to build and create the text, as well as learn to make predictions on why we think the writer has used a certain word or phrase. The more your learner can understand the importance of reading, and how this crucial skill helps improve their written expression, and critical evaluation.

The best critic of your learner's work is themselves. I will give your learners the tools to make better choices in writing, and support the development of writing fluidity, organization, and opinions given in written work.

I will teach your learners to cover different writing genres, learners rarely get enough practice in school to understand, edit, and write:

- Use tried and tested techniques to improve structure such as P.E.E, L (Point, evidence, explain, link).
- Use FANBOYS to promote a variety of different sentence constructs.
- Know how to edit one's work, selecting and replacing irrelevant boring words.
- Persuasively.
- Balanced arguments.
- Using different formats; poems, letters, speeches, essays, articles, blogs, memoirs, diaries, information pieces, and so on. This course will give exposure to the different forms and purposes of writing.

I will also teach your learners to evaluate short written texts to:
- Understand the obvious.
- Question the clues.
- Know that 'implicit' isn't just the words on paper, but a deeper meaning.
- Critically evaluating the purpose of a written piece.
- Understanding the features and formats of different written pieces, both modern and old.
 Every week, we will discuss a different part of reading or writing, as well as practice our English skills as we learn and develop.

Each class will focus on one part of the English language or literature.
 
Every week will include one of the following topics, on a rotational basis, if there is a topic not covered I can ad or amend it.

Course Schedule by week

Theme 1 - Week commencing 8th February 2023 - FAKE NEWS read all about it...Use Persuasive techniques - A.F.O.R.R.E.S.T (Alliteration, Facts, Opinion, Rhetorical Questions, Emotive Language, The Rule of Three).

Theme 2 - Week commencing 15th February 2023 -  Detailed Descriptive writing, using expanded noun phrases, similes, metaphor, and personification to create vivid imagery.

Theme 3  -  Week commencing 22nd February 2023 - Explain, that you're the expert...Use FANBOYS: Use connectives to make detailed varied sentences, it's all in the detail.

Theme 4 -  Week commencing 1st March 2023 - Climate Change Speech - Read, deduce and understand the purpose, and respond using the 5 W's and 1 H. Who, what, why, where, when, plus how?

Theme 5 -  Week commencing 8th March 2023 - Short story, building suspense, using figurative language, similes, metaphors, personification, noun phrases, dialogue, plot, character development, and the classic story mountain.

Theme 6  - Week commencing 15th March 2023 -  A Text Predicting  The Future of Technology/Artificial Intelligence - Make Predictions and Look back at the past, understand inference, and read for meaning. Write your predictions.

Theme 7 -  Week commencing 22nd March 2023 -  The Classic Run On Sentence - Edit, Edit, and Edit punctuate, and make sense.

Theme 8  - Week commencing 1st April 2023 -  A Popular Biography Mini Comprehension Challenge - Exploding the moment in a personal biography. Using recount writing to tell a personal tale in the right order, using sensory language and the language of feelings.

Theme 9  - Week commencing 8th April 2023 - Boring Sentence Prompts to Creative original Prompts. -  Parts of a sentence, how they are constructed, and why it is vital to add all of the different elements. Creating sentences - will show your learner how to create interesting solid creative sentences.

Theme 10 -  Week commencing 15th April 2023- Verb and Adverb Comprehension Treasure Hunt - Using verbs and adverbial phrases to liven up sentences and descriptions.

Theme 11  - Week commencing 22nd April 2023 -  Creating a poem in the structure of a Limerick, Rhyme, or Nonsense Riddle.

Theme 12 - Week commencing 29th April 2023 Comprehension and understanding factual vs opinion, produce a mini News Article using: PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explain, Link).

Theme 13 - Week commencing 5th May - A Personal Narrative or Diary Entry exploring how to use the language of feelings, and writing in chronological order.

Theme 14 - Week commencing 12th May 2023 -  Looking Back In History At A Famous Person's Diary - Comprehension, learning how to infer and read a text for deeper meaning. Identifying how language choice can have a hidden message.  

Theme 15 - Week commencing 19th May 2023 - The Art of Persuasion - Using Persuasive Devices, Alliteration, Facts, Opinions, Rhetorical Questions, Statistics, and more.

Theme 16 - Week commencing 26th May  - The Adventure Of A Button - creative writing, learning descriptive techniques, figurative language, zooming in and zooming out.
***class listings will rotate back to the beginning, themes will remain, but the content will change***

These classes will be structured and engaging and will include model answers, coaching,  questions and answers, topical debates as well as hand-picked extracts for analysis.  If anything is required, it will be announced before the start date. The most that would be required is paper and a pencil or crayons. Students are welcome to join at any time, each class does not build on the prior class, so they will not be left out.