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Writing Club: One Sentence at a Time- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

In this four-week self paced class students will learn how to write a top-quality essay featuring descriptive and powerful adjectives, adverbs, similes, alliteration, conjunctions, vocabulary and more. (Based on a Year 3 UK level).
Carlin King (BA (Hons), PGCE)
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8 pre-recorded lessons
4 weeks
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1 year access
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Class Experience

US Grade 1 - 4
Writing can often seem daunting and so often an entire writing piece or story is the primary outcome of a writing lesson. This is where I believe a change needs to happen. In order for students to feel confident in their writing they need to feel equipped with techniques, tools and ideas to create a successful sentence. Writing is made up of many sentences. Once a learner is confident in various writing techniques, they can apply this to any story or writing piece. In each class, we will use a method called sentence stacking. This method of writing is used in many successful schools throughout the United Kingdom. An idea or writing extract is looked at and modelled. The techniques used in the model are discussed and students brainstorm various ways to use this technique in different ways and in their own words. Ideas are gathered between all the students and then a sentence is built.  Together and independently we will then create effective and engaging sentences.  This class is open to students of all writing abilities however, students should be able to write a simple sentence by themselves. Some of the techniques we look at are repetition, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyming, personification, adjectives, adverbs, complex sentences and adverbial phrases to name a few. 

In this class, students will be writing a fun, humorous and imaginative story based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by the much-loved Roald Dahl. Our stories will describe the moments before and just after Charlie finds the winning golden ticket inside the chocolate bar. It shares the moment that Charlie discovered it, shared the news with his family and ends with him standing at the entrance of the giant gates of the Willy Wonka factory.   Students do not need to read the book before, however, it may be more exciting if they have read it or watched the movie.  Students do not need a copy of this book  Each week there will be two lessons. In each lesson, we will explore various writing techniques and outcomes and I will model this for students so they know exactly what to do, and are free to change theirs as much as they want or stick closely to my model.  By the end of the fourth week (or longer if you need more time), each student will have a beautifully written, top-quality essay that will be full of important writing tools.  It is important that students write their six writing chunks in order. I will check regularly and give a personal video-recorded feedback discussion with each student.  Students are welcome to send in their weekly writing at any time during the week.

Lessons will be uploaded on the classroom page as an unlisted youtube link. When the link is clicked- the lesson will play.

Syllabus

8 Lessons
over 4 Weeks
Lesson 1:
A delicious Treat
 To write effective sentences for our story using repetition, adverbs & similes and feeling & tasting. 
Lesson 2:
No Golden Ticket
 To write effective sentences for our story using dialogue, conjunction and short sentences 
Lesson 3:
A ticket
 To write effective sentences for our story using onomatopoeia, adverbs & ellipsis and adjectives 
Lesson 4:
Sprinting Home
 To write effective sentences for our story using synonyms and adverbial & similes, dialogue and a complex sentence 

Other Details

Parental Guidance
I will teach lessons and record them via Youtube. Youtube links will be shared with students giving them access to see my recorded lessons. No account is needed to view the videos.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
  • Youtube
Joined February, 2021
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Hello, my name is Carlin King. I am a Year 1 teacher living and working in the United Kingdom. I have been a primary school teacher for more than ten years and love being part of the formative years. I have been trained in a number of different phonetic programmes including RWInc (Read, Write Inc). 

My greatest passion is teaching children to read and write. As a child, I loved to write stories. I found it came naturally to me as I was a total book worm. However, as a teacher, I have seen that many children struggle with creativity, vocabulary and sentence structure when it comes to their writing. When children have both a writing model and an interest in the subject matter - that is when creative writing takes shape. Engaging and exciting themes, fun and well-written books and fascinating historical events and characters are just some of the subjects I like to use in my writing lessons. These classes will be for primary school children roughly between the ages of 5-8. Basic phonetic knowledge needs to be there as we can then sound out and build sentences together.  

I am a firm believer in teaching phonics when it comes to fluent and confident reading. I have been teaching children to read throughout my teaching career and have had many experiences in different phonetic programmes. I decided to create my own phonic reading scheme, using what I know works, and make it engaging and exciting for children.
I believe teaching is about having fun and allowing children to get emersed in a subject. As a teacher, I strive to be a guide - allowing children to let their interest and curiosity drive their learning. As a child, I loved school and was privileged to go to more than one school as I spent my childhood living in different parts of Africa. I was born in Nambia and then moved to Ghana when I was nine years old.  As a teenager, I attended a wonderful boarding school in South Africa. I now live in England with my husband and two gorgeous babies.

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