Write from the Senses; Wild Writing and Story Soup!

Write from the senses and words that work (years 4 – 6, ideally)

Using the five senses is one of the best ways to incorporate descriptive writing. Describing sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch helps spark creativity when writing.

Award-winning author Andrea Rowe helps students explore and envision descriptive words and put Show, Don’t Tell into practice.

This session features:

• Descriptive writing techniques building narrative skills
• Looks like, feels like, sounds like, smells like
• Emotional connections & imagery
• Let’s explore setting
• Prompts & charts

 

Wild writing (years 4 – 6, ideally)

Hosted by award-winning author Andrea Rowe, students will have fun deep diving into imagination and creating adventurous characters in sensational settings inspired by wild and wonderful places.

This is their chance to GO WILD and have fun creating characters and worlds worth exploring.

This session features:

• Create a wild character
• Develop a wild world
• Write from the senses
• What wild problem will your character overcome?
• Go wild imagining

 

Story Soup (years 6 – 8, ideally)

A bowl full of printed words, a pen to stir them and an appetite for creating stories.

Fill yourself up with Story Soup. Award-winning author Andrea Rowe dishes out the story making fun.

This session features:

• Playful writing exercises
• Interactive plot development
• Creating characters
• Building conflict and exploring solutions
• Stretching writing skills