Specific to this workshop:

• Read and discuss simple picture book series stories centred around one character
• Primary focus on character development and consistency
• Collaboratively create a character with a driving personality trait
• Integrate details of the collaboratively created character and his/her family, home and friends into own story
• Learn and apply different planning and writing techniques, including sensory description, showing rather than telling, dialogue, and use of catch phrases and idiosyncratic actions
• Students at the ECP centre will also spend the end of the term doing a Technical Skills Booster customised by each teacher to the class's needs based on the writing done throughout the term.

As writers:

• Write with confidence and independence
• Become aware of the disconnect between what the writer knows/imagines and what the reader knows if it’s not written down
• Express ideas with detail
• Slow down to elaborate each part of a story fully
• Follow a simple story structure
• Sequence ideas logically and step-by-step
• Use vocabulary that they know in their writing
• Improve writing skills through individualised feedback from the teacher
• Correct identified technical errors in their work to prepare writing to be published

As learners:

• Develop creativity and collaboration through a workshop environment
• Develop grit and perseverance by working on a challenging and long-term writing project
• Develop time and project management skills to see a project through to completion
• Learn to look at own work critically and consider how to improve it
• Learn to be open to and respond to constructive feedback
• Gain confidence as a writer by writing and publishing a story in a book for a real audience