Service Description

Phase 2: The main focus of each course is learning how to write fluently and effectively in English with varied sentence structure, ambitious vocabulary and a variety of figurative language. Our courses for the younger students will focus primarily on story telling and writing descriptions and gradually increase in challenge and range of tasks until the students are working on descriptive, narrative, persuasive, discursive and informative writing towards GCSE-level. Each course includes areas designed to build a student’s confidence, ways to improve their writing in terms of sentence structure, vocabulary and figurative language, and lots of hints and tips for how to boost their mark in an exam situation. We also factor in past papers from a variety of well-known independent schools to prepare the students for the range of exams that they may take. 1 Structure: Cause and Effect & Motivation This section looks at how cause and effect can be used to define the structure of a story. Also looks at how a character's motivation can direct a narrative 2 Structure: Great Openings Comparison of some great openings to novels, collecting techniques and beginning to apply them to their own writing 3 Structure: Climaxes Definition of climax and analysis of some good examples. 4 Structure: Resolutions Examples of effective endings - and some ineffective endings 5 Further Structural Devices: Multiple Perspectives Looks at the effect of the narrator's perspective 6 Further Structural Devices: Changing the Order Re-draft a simple story but alter the narrative sequence 7 Further Structural Devices: Framing Devices Experiment with ways of framing a story 8 Further Structural Devices: Epistolary Form Experiment with variety of epistolary forms 9 Important Techniques: Creating Tension effective examples from literature 10 Important Techniques: Writing dialogue effective examples from literature