This online writing and journalism course will teach you all about Writing for Children. This includes things like:
- Picture Books
- Junior Fiction
- Young Adult Novels
In this online course, you’ll learn about structure, dialogue, pacing, and other keys to engaging a child’s interest.
Course Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 10 in-depth lessons:
- Introduction Understanding Children – their thoughts, needs, development.
- Overview of Children’s Writing Categories (fiction & non-fiction), understanding the market place; analyse and understand what is needed for the different categories, etc.
- Conceptualisation Conceiving a concept – where and how to find inspiration/influence. Developing a concept – how to plan.
- Children’s Writing for Periodicals Children’s pages in magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Short Stories
- Non-Fiction Texts – writing to satisfy curriculum. Other – nature, history, biography, hobbies.
- Fiction Settings, Characterisation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure.
- Picture Books and Story Books
- Editing Your Work Grammar, spelling & punctuation. Improving clarity. Cleaning out clutter; expansions.
- Project Write a short story, picture book or kids page for a (hypothetical) periodical.
Course Aims
- Describe children’s cognitive development
- Explain the scope and nature of writing for children
- Describe the process of planning a written manuscript
- Describe the planning and processes involved in writing for children’s magazines
- Develop a short story for children
- Discuss the specific requirements associated with writing non-fiction
- Describe the various categories of children’s fiction
- Explain the scope and nature of literature aimed at young children
- Explain the scope and significance of editing skills and processes for children’s writing
- Plan, evaluate, edit and present a piece of writing for children
HOW DOES A WARNBOROUGH ONLINE COURSE WORK?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
If you have any questions please contact us.