Service Description

Phase 2: It is a 1-to-3 course. Narrative Writing 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 Introduction: Descriptive Writing Crash Course Parts of Speech: Writing with Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs all in the SAME SENTENCE. Followed by the 5 Senses: Writing with Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch, and Taste... 2 Times of Day Students practice writing about different times of day and different times of year: dawn, dusk, midnight! 3 Poetry: the Seasons In our first poetry class, we write poems that are Odes (i.e. celebrations) of the seasons! We read some examples and write our own poems for the seasons, thinking about several essential techniques for poetry writing! 4 Different Perspectives We practice writing from the perspective of different characters in the same story to see what a difference this makes to the story we are writing! (Roald Dahl?) 5 Proofreading: Finding Mistakes The students practice a range of Worksheets to help them with their PUNCTUATION and SPELLING and GRAMMAR proofreading! 6 Persuasive Writing Letter formatting, Speech (3 techniques: anecdote, stats, rule of 3) 7 Newspaper Article Reportage (Accident, Fireworks) 8 Diary: A Day in the Life Zoo Keeper, Medieval 9 Poetry: Who Am I? Lymericks, Riddles, Objects, and Animals 10 REVISION LESSON End of Term Writing Assessment