Creative Writing Primary School Visits

I love running creative writing sessions for primary school and high school students.

As well as being a children’s author I studied English at the Australian National University.

I love to help even the most reluctant writer to come up with an idea for their story and I ensure there is time to work one on one with every student in the class.

Three act structure guided creative writing workshop

Year 1 -Year 6

Learning outcomes: three act structure, literary devices, 'show don't tell' and visual literacy

This is a guided creative writing workshop where children will write their own story. In the workshop I will explore the three-act structure for creative writing.

I will work with the children to come up with their own story including:

Character
Setting
Problem
Trying to solve the problem
Resolution
Different types of endings
Using literary devices to make their story shine
Using the 'show don't tell' technique
The importance of visual literacy and leaving room for illustrations.

I provide worksheets for year 1 - 3 and worksheets for year 4-6.

I will also share where my ideas come from and behind the scenes peaks into the creation of books – from initial idea to first draft to early illustrations to the final book.