Learn the secrets to energizing groups of reluctant writers (especially boys) with a one day teacher training workshop. Make writing a more enjoyable, accessible and relevant experience for your students.

Covers:

• Narrative writing workshop techniques

• How to link narrative writing to kids’ popular culture – movies and gaming

• Extending their natural enthusiasm for storytelling

• Tackling NAPLAN

• Expanding literacy outcomes in the classroom (getting students to incorporate those similes and metaphors you’ve been hammering into them)

• Incorporating popular technology into the narrative writing focus

• Overcoming extreme reluctance in teenage boys by using gaming concepts as a basis for creating original narratives

• Scriptwriting (film & radio drama)