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Helping GCSE resit learners to craft and control creative writing (In-house)

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This course explores how teachers can support learners to make decisions and control narrative voice, structure and time for effect in their creative writing. The course activities encourage participants to try out suggestions for writing activities before using them with their learners.

Programme aim

To explore how teachers can support learners to see themselves as creative writers who craft, manipulate and control language and structures for effect by making decisions about narrative voice, structure and the treatment of time.

Who is this for?

This course is for teachers who teach GCSE, Functional Skills English or other tutors and support staff who need to support the development of learners' English skills.

Programme structure

This course is 2 hours in length and can be delivered as a live online session or face-to-face delivery.

What will you gain?

Explore strategies for supporting learners to manipulate narrative voice for control and effect.
Examine ways in which narratives are structured and explore strategies to help learners structure more effectively when planning and writing for the GCSE examination.
Look at ways to support learners to investigate how they might handle the time span and tense of their creative writing.

Be able to devise activities which help learners to make key decisions about their creative writing, including: narrative perspective and voice; time and tense; structure.

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