Learning Session Details
Age: 8 to 12 Years
Course Duration: 24 Sessions
Little Authors (24 Sessions)
Children who are enthusiastic about creating stories and narrations. Children who aspire to become little writers, poets and authors of small stories and even novels. Children who want to develop their story telling skills. Publish your stories and make it available for others to read with Print-on-Demand Technology.
Notebook and Pen
You will be learning how to write a story in a sequence and will be taught about the nuances of writing. The creative process broadens the children’s imagination whether while creating a character, a storyline, introducing a conflict or a turning point. Story writing or story telling is a very valuable skill which is totally underrated. In fact, it can develop your child to be bold, confident in writing as well as develop their public speaking. The way a person tells a story is all that matters. Let your child become a little author who inspires many.
Memory and focus is another important skill that develops while perseverance and the push to complete the story is also a key life skill that a child would learn while writing their own story.
We not only help your child to write a story, but help them become self-made publishers by introducing them to Print-On-Demand Technology. This gives them a complete experience and also gives them an audience. Their work is not let go off. They know that there is an audience for their work which helps them create better stories and novels
Demo Session: Structure/Elements of a story - Setting, Characters, Plot, Problem, Solution
Session 1: Recap of Demo (Structure/Elements of a story). Exercise- Fill up the elements of a story.
Homework - A template will be given and the children will fill the elements with their favorite story
Session 2: Reinforcing elements of a story. Discussing the child’s homework and helping them understand the structure of a story well.
Homework - Think about the plot for your own story. Capture them.
Session 3: Introducing Genre
Home work - Children will bring one example in each genre. Identify the genre that they are going to write about.
Session 4: Deep delve on Forms of Poetry, Terms Line break, Stanza, Rhyme or Rhythm, Repetition, Imagery and Alliteration. Forms of poetry.
Homework - Identify the elements of the given poem. Take a simple poem of your choice and identify the elements
Session 5: Reinforcing elements of a poem. Homework review of each other's work.
Homework - Identify the elements of another poem
Session 6: Compare and contrast two stories. Highlight the story elements in each story
Homework - IMPORTANT: Come up with ideas for your story book.
Session 7: Writing Begins! Germinate multiple plots Come up with various
Homework - Eliminate the weak plots and choose your favourite
Session 8: Shape up the plot for the story!
Homework - Complete a story...
Session 9: Refining the plot for the story
Homework - Enhance the plot
Session 10: Defining the Setting of the story
Homework - Enhance the setting with your own creativity
Session 11: Defining the characters of the story
Homework - Enhance the characters
Session 12: Developing the characters & side-kicks of the story
Homework - Enhance the characters
Session 13: Adding layers to the problem of the story
Homework - Finalize the problem
Session 14: Debate on each others problem of the story
Homework - Finalize the problem
Session 15: Identify the solution of the problem
Homework - Finalize and mull over the solution
Session 16: Analyse if the solution has any loose ends
Homework - Finalize and mull over the solution
Session 17: Shaping up the story
Homework - Finalize and mull over the solution
Session 18: Wrapping up the story
Homework - Finalize and mull over the solution
Session 19: Proofreading a story - Things to do while proofreading a story
Homework - Finish Proofreading
Session 20: What is Editing?
Homework - Peer Editing
Session 21: Peer Editing the story
Homework - Finalizing script
Session 22: Collaboration with author and editor
a Title, blurb and illustration. Collaboration with author and editor.
Homework - Finalizing script
Session 23: Soft Launch of the books - Rehearsal.
Homework - Handover script for printing
Session 24: Soft Launch of the book Demonstration for parents.
Homework - Handover script for printing
-
Creative Imagination
-
Sequencing
-
Interpersonal Skills
-
Perseverance and Determination
-
-
10 illustrations and Wrapper design will be done for your story
-
20 printed copies of your own book will be available for you(Additional Charges Applied)
-
Anuradha is a Digital Marketer by profession. She is an optimistic personality who has been brave enough to dabble between multiple career choices, from being an IT professional to a self-published author to a storyteller.
Enjoying being a mother of two, she loves interacting with children. She believes strongly that knowledge that is gathered willingly from the world stays longer in the children. Thus she believes in experiential learning.
She knows how to make children look forward to learning without making it a chore. She makes use of multiple senses and inculcates sensory experiences in her sessions. This helps the child learn anything new with ease without their knowledge. This also helps them to retain in memory for long.
