Embark on an exhilarating journey with our interactive writing course. Receive expert feedback, and with comprehensive course guiding you throughout; master the art of captivating readers with your unique voice.
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With over 65+ lessons, students will learn narrative, persuasive, and informative writing, covering various writing skills essential for academic success and beyond.
Access to a wealth of prompts, including examples, tips, and practical exercises. With detailed teacher feedback, students have the support they need to enhance their writing skills.
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The most common test pack chosen by parents. 1200 questions. 30 Tests. What's holding you back?
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See if your child is exam ready. Starting package so you know where your child stands.
The most common test pack chosen by parents. 1200 questions. 30 Tests. What's holding you back?
All-in-one package for everything NAPLAN related. Success is waiting for your child.
See if your child is exam ready. Starting package so you know where your child stands.
The most common test pack chosen by parents. 1200 questions. 30 Tests. What's holding you back?
All-in-one package for everything NAPLAN related. Success is waiting for your child.
Unleash your imagination in a course that compels your mind and heart to explore unknown worlds, invent magical characters, and construct compelling plots.
Engage in structured learning experiences that captivate you with fun prewriting exercises, weave you through the fundamentals of fictional texts, and teach you strategies to fascinate readers of all ages and interests.
These creative writing lessons are perfect for improving creative writing skills for primary school students in years 3 - 6 and high school students in years 7 - 12.
Flash Fiction
Diary Entry
Drama Scripts
Poetry
Discover the art of persuasive writing. Learn how this type of writing goes far beyond school, and how it is an essential life skill of logical reasoning that will be useful in any scenario.
Course materials will offer myriad communication exercises including speech design, building and supporting robust premises, and debating. These learning opportunities will prepare you with the skills and content you need to win arguments, inspire action, influence behaviours, and resolve conflicts...all with the power of your pen.
Students can improve their persuasive writing techniques with lessons that are perfect for year 3-6 primary school students and year 7-12 high school students.
Essay
Letter
Speech
Debate
Convey complex information an an engaging, accessible and clear manner. Our course empowers students to provide their readers valuable knowledge and insights while remaining objective in their writing style.
In this course, you will learn valuable research and critical thinking skills, while exploring the vital role informative writing plays in our society and culture. Who can you trust for information? Where do you look to obtain facts and evidence? How do you share knowledge or skills that are appropriately written for different audiences? What needs to be told now to protect and preserve others in the future? These questions and more will compel you to immerse yourself in the impactful world of informative writing.
These lessons are perfect for teaching primary school and high school students how to logically arrange their information and provide essential information to their readers.
Article
Reviews
Blogs
Newspaper
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The writing course tracks key skills in narrative, persuasive, and informative writing, helping students identify strengths and areas for improvement. This enables students to focus their efforts effectively and allows parents to provide targeted support at home.
Detailed feedback on each writing response highlights students' strengths and areas for improvement, providing clear guidance for enhancing writing skills. This targeted feedback helps students understand how to refine their techniques and improve their overall writing quality.
Simulated exam conditions help students read unseen prompt instructions, brainstorm, and type or upload responses. By experiencing timed conditions and structured formats, students build confidence and improve their performance in actual exams.
Creative writing is a form of artistic expression where the writer uses imagination, creativity, and originality to tell a story, express emotions, or share ideas. It can include poetry, fiction, drama, and other literary forms.
Regular practice, reading various forms of literature, experimenting with different styles and genres, and receiving feedback from teachers or peers are effective ways to improve creative writing skills.
To excel, practice writing regularly, read a variety of genres to understand different writing styles, plan your story structure, focus on creating vivid characters and settings, and ensure your writing has a clear beginning, middle, and end. In short, develop your ability to identify and apply short story elements and how they contribute to the text's success.
Inspiration can come from various sources such as personal experiences, observations, reading other literary works, comic books and cartoons or practicing specific exercises in which you use your imagination to create unique scenarios and characters and listing things that bring joy or exploring new things.
Marking criteria for creative writing tests often include criteria like originality, plot coherence, character development, effective use of language, grammatical accuracy, and the ability to engage the reader.
Creative writing compels writers to explore and utilise specific vocabulary words to enhance their descriptions and gives writers the opportunity to reflect on their personal lives and experiences as inspiration, which fosters natural persuasive techniques. Creative writing also stimulates writers to take risks with their ideas, which encourages invention and idea growth in subject areas such as STEM, psychology, marketing, education, business, history and law.
Persuasive writing is a form of writing that not only aims to convince the reader to accept their point of view or opinion but also attempts to change attitudes, beliefs, values or judgments. It often suggests a course of action. It involves presenting arguments and evidence to support a particular idea or viewpoint.
Persuasive writing helps students formulate specific reasons for their opinions and engage in research to find facts supporting these opinions. Using persuasive writing techniques is fundamental for producing successful responses to argumentative prompts on tests. Persuasive writing helps students develop critical thinking skills and improve their communication skills by using rhetorical strategies. Persuasive writing is pervasive in today's society. It can be seen in advertisements, political campaigns, opinion pieces, and blogs.
Rubrics typically assess the clarity of argument, the effectiveness of persuasion techniques (like ethos, pathos, logos), organisation and structure, evidence and support for arguments, and language use, including grammar and vocabulary.
Practice forming clear, concise arguments on various topics, using strong and logical reasoning, including credible evidence, and refine your writing style to be persuasive yet readable.
You should start with a strong thesis statement, follow with body paragraphs presenting a clear point supported by evidence, and conclude by reinforcing your argument and its implications.
Research your topic well, understand different viewpoints, develop logical, well-supported arguments, and address potential counterarguments.
Informative writing aims to educate the reader about a specific topic. It provides facts, explanations, and information without the writer's opinion. Informative writing includes newspaper articles, recipes, directions, instruction manuals, tutorials, process analyses, cause and effect essays, problem-solution essays, classification essays, and comparative essays.
Tips include using clear and concise language, avoiding personal bias, ensuring the accuracy of facts, and include various diagrams, charts, and bullet points to enhance understanding.
Informative writing should be objective and based on facts. Personal opinions or subjective interpretations should be avoided unless the prompt allows for reflective elements.
An informative essay response for a test should include an introduction that has an effective hook and strong thesis statement (claim), body paragraphs with solid transitions, facts/evidence to support the thesis/claim, and for the conclusion, reiterate the thesis/claim, and explain the significance of the information.
For informative writing, start with an introduction outlining the topic, then body paragraphs covering a specific aspect or detail, and conclude with a summary reinforcing the main information presented.
Research is crucial in informative writing. It involves gathering relevant, reliable, and readable information about the topic to provide accurate and comprehensive content.
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