SUMMER CAMP: Essential Essay Writing Club 101 Ages 7 To 10

ATTENTION: Young writers often struggle to express written idea's clearly, writing can lack structure and clarity. In this weekly ongoing course learners will navigate how to craft, style and develop their own unique view on varied different topics.

This course is suitable for reluctant learners, or emerging writers that need a fun safe place to develop their own sense and style of writing. Learners will need to be able to write short sentences independently, but I will provide assistance for learners that need a patient teacher to help them develop, edit and plan their idea's.

Learners will know how to introduce their topic, produce different perspectives, before concluding their final thoughts in a conclusion.

This course will teach learners how to, develop idea's, use essential words, add linking works, as well as editing one's own work.

What your learner can expect in the lesson?

- A fun topical, engaging conversational part lecture led, but student led learning to develop writing expression.
- We will cover a different grammar point each lesson.
- Selecting different, more expressive vocabulary.
- Understanding the different features of each piece of writing.
- Thinking about the audience that we are writing to.
- Understanding how the mood and tone of writing belongs to it's different writing purpose.
- Distinguishing between fact, opinion and how to use it when writing.
- Figurative language, and how it creates imagery, using personification, similes, metaphors, adverbial phrases, and so on.
- Model answers.
- Question and answer sessions to aid the creation for writing.
- Writing prompts, and encouragement to take risks in writing.



We will cover the different writing styles:

- Writing to Persuade
- Writing to Argue
- Writing to Explain
- Writing a Report
- Creative Writing
- Descriptive Writing


Each week will focus on one of the writing styles, across the two sessions to allow learners time to apply the theory the different writing styles and structure of writing.

The course will be taught by a fully qualified, certified English Teacher, using different text examples, modelling essay skills, Q & A style sessions to develop idea's with peers. 

Week 1 - Theme 1 - I am right! Writing to Persuade.

Week 2 - Theme 2 - I may be right, I could be right, but I need to prove it! Writing to Argue.

Week 3 - Theme 3 - This is how the process works, but I need to explain why. Writing to Explain.

Week 4 - Theme 4 - I have a lot of information, statistics and so on, I need to organise it. Writing a Report.

Week 5 - Theme 5 - Once Upon A Time, I wrote something amazing! I will plan, edit, and write a Short Story.

Week 6 - Theme 6 - Describe something using figurative language, help someone imagine they are there. Understanding Descriptive Techniques, and producing a Descriptive Piece of Writing.