Course Structure and Lesson Content
Writing For Children comprises 10 lessons.
Lesson 1. Introduction
- Understanding Children
- Children's thoughts
- Children's needs
- Child development.
Lesson 2. Overview of Children’s Writing
- Categories (fiction & non-fiction)
- Understanding the marketplace
- Analyse and understand what is needed for the different categories, etc.
Lesson 3. Conceptualisation: Conceiving a concept
- Where and how to find inspiration/influence.
- Developing a concept
- How to plan.
Lesson 4. Children’s Writing for Periodicals
- Children’s pages in magazines
- Newspapers, etc.
Lesson 5. Short Stories
Lesson 6. Non-Fiction
- Texts (writing to satisfy curriculum).
- Other (e.g. nature, history, biography, hobbies).
Lesson 7. Fiction
- Settings
- Characterisation
- Fantasy
- Science fiction
- Adventure.
Lesson 8. Picture Books and Story Books
- Differences between types of picture books
- Age groups and picture books
Lesson 9. Editing your work
- Grammar
- Spelling and punctuation
- Improving clarity
- Cleaning out clutter
- Expansions.
Lesson 10. Project
Write a short story, picture book or kids page for a (hypothetical) periodical.
Course Aims
- Describe children’s cognitive development and target writing to be appropriate to various developmental stages.
- Explain the nature and scope of writing for children.
- Describe the process of planning a written manuscript of children’s writing.
- Describe the planning and processes involved in writing articles for children’s magazines.
- Develop a short story for children to read.
- Discuss the specific requirements associated with writing children’s non-fiction.
- Describe the various categories of children’s fiction and the writing processes involved.
- Explain the scope and nature of literature aimed at young children.
- Explain the scope and significance of editing skills and processes for children’s writing.
- Plan, evaluate, edit and present a piece of writing for children.
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- You can study when and where suits you. They are flexible to fit in around you and your lifestyle.
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- It is not just a course, it is a package of learning that includes – course notes, tutor feedback, self-assessment tests, research tasks and assignments.
- Our tutors are all experts in their field, with years of experience in teaching and distance learning.
- They are also keen and enthusiastic about their subject and enjoy working with students to improve their knowledge and skills.
- Courses are also updated regularly to meet the demands of the changing needs for knowledge and to keep our courses up to date.
What makes little children tick?
Tap into little minds and stir imaginations. Learn how to write for children across a range of genres and gain the basics of editing and improving your work. Finally, use your new skills to produce your own creative work for children.
- Free your imagination and engage a child's.
- Keeping a child amused and happy is no simple task. Children’s writing is a specialised craft. It is a rewarding, inspirational, and often demanding, branch of writing.
- Do you remember the books you read as a child?
- Did they make you feel like the world held a thousand possibilities?
- Do you want to re-create that feeling?
What Next?
- Inspire children.
- Encourage them to use their imaginations.
- Improve your writing skills for children to improve the education and training you offer.
This is a great course for anyone who is interested in teaching and educating children and would love to be creative and imaginative at the same time.
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