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Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Conflict & resolution

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Valuing & judging

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

Genre Mixes (Middle Years)

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Christmas Genre (Middle Years)

Comedy Genre (Middle Years)

Conflict & resolution

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

Everyday Life Genre (Middle Years)

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Genre Mix 01 (General)

Genre Mix 01 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 02 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 03 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 04 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 05 (Middle years)

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Horror Genre (Middle years)

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Memoir Genre (Middle Years)

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Sci-fi Genre (Middle years)

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 01

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 02

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 01

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 02

Valuing & judging

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

Functional Grammar: Sentence construction lesson pack

Functional Grammar: Word groups lesson pack

Genre Mixes (Middle Years)

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Adjective groups

Adverb groups

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Christmas Genre (Middle Years)

Comedy Genre (Middle Years)

Complex sentences

Conclusion to Word Groups

Conflict & resolution

Connectors and an introduction to complex meaning

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

Everyday Life Genre (Middle Years)

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Four and a half types of sentence

Genre Mix 01 (General)

Genre Mix 01 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 02 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 03 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 04 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 05 (Middle years)

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Horror Genre (Middle years)

Intro to Word Groups

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Memoir Genre (Middle Years)

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Noun groups

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Prepositional phrases

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Sci-fi Genre (Middle years)

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Simple sentences

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 01

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 02

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 01

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 02

Understanding clauses

Valuing & judging

Verb groups

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Conflict & resolution

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Valuing & judging

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

Functional Grammar: Sentence construction lesson pack

Functional Grammar: Word groups lesson pack

Genre Mixes (Middle Years)

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Adjective groups

Adverb groups

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Christmas Genre (Middle Years)

Comedy Genre (Middle Years)

Complex sentences

Conclusion to Word Groups

Conflict & resolution

Connectors and an introduction to complex meaning

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

Everyday Life Genre (Middle Years)

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Four and a half types of sentence

Genre Mix 01 (General)

Genre Mix 01 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 02 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 03 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 04 (Middle years)

Genre Mix 05 (Middle years)

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Horror Genre (Middle years)

Intro to Word Groups

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Memoir Genre (Middle Years)

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Noun groups

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Prepositional phrases

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Sci-fi Genre (Middle years)

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Simple sentences

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 01

Snippet-a-Day Memoir 02

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 01

Snippet-a-Day Middle-Years Fiction 02

Understanding clauses

Valuing & judging

Verb groups

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

Functional Grammar: Sentence construction lesson pack

Functional Grammar: Word groups lesson pack

High-concept storytelling in Gone

Memoir Basics

Narrative Basics

Observing and describing in Storm Boy

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix

Action Basics Activity 01: Physical action

Action Basics Activity 02: Environmental action

Action Basics Activity 03: Internal action

Action Basics Activity 04: Interpersonal action

Action Basics Activity 05: Sequencing action

Action Basics Activity 06: Action and reaction

Action Basics Activity 07: Meaning of action

Action Basics Activity 08: Summarising action

Action Basics Activity 09: Expanding action

Action Basics Activity 10: Checkpoint

Adjective groups

Adverb groups

Change, cause & effect

Character Basics Activity 01: Names and labels

Character Basics Activity 02: Physical details

Character Basics Activity 03: Behaviour

Character Basics Activity 04: Their history

Character Basics Activity 05: Perception

Character Basics Activity 06: Feelings and emotions

Character Basics Activity 07: Thoughts and beliefs

Character Basics Activity 08: Motivations and desires

Character Basics Activity 09: Relationships

Character Basics Activity 10: Judging characters

Character Basics Activity 11: Summary descriptions

Character Basics Activity 12: Detailed descriptions

Character Basics Activity 13: Checkpoint

Complex sentences

Conclusion to Word Groups

Conflict & resolution

Connectors and an introduction to complex meaning

Contrast & juxtaposition

Detective comedy 1: Setting up the shabby detective

Detective comedy 2: Introducing the client

Detective comedy 3: Getting the job

Detective comedy 4: Some action!

Detective comedy 5: Reflecting on the job

Dialogue Basics Activity 01: Greeting

Dialogue Basics Activity 02: Commanding

Dialogue Basics Activity 03: Asking questions

Dialogue Basics Activity 04: Giving information

Dialogue Basics Activity 05: Telling a story

Dialogue Basics Activity 06: Encouraging

Dialogue Basics Activity 07: Teasing

Dialogue Basics Activity 08: Intimidating

Dialogue Basics Activity 09: Making plans

Dialogue Basics Activity 10: Writing dialogue

Dialogue Basics Activity 11: Speech tags

Dialogue Basics Activity 12: Reported speech

Dialogue Basics Activity 13: Blending dialogue with action

Dialogue Basics Activity 14: Capturing voice

Dialogue Basics Activity 15: Capturing emotion

Dialogue Basics Activity 16: Checkpoint

Dracula vs Twilight: Forks vs the Carpathians

Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect

Emotion 2: Representing character emotion

Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader

First person in That Eye, the Sky 1: Saying goodbye

First person in That Eye, the Sky 2: Summarising the characters

First person in That Eye, the Sky 3: Sounds of the night

First person in That Eye, the Sky 4: Increasing the tension

First person in That Eye, the Sky 5: Racing to the scene

First person in That Eye, the Sky 6: The bad event

Four and a half types of sentence

Genre Mix 01 (General)

Goals and motivations

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Guiding the reader's eye

Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Isolating the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 1: Big concept, small beginnings

High-concept storytelling in Gone 2: Meet the heroes

High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up

High-concept storytelling in Gone 4: Speaking for the group

High-concept storytelling in Gone 5: Revealing the big picture

High-concept storytelling in Gone 6: Ending big, promising bigger

Intro to Word Groups

Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?

Memoir Basics 2: Using memory to tell a story

Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

Memoir Basics 4: Writing an eye-catching opener

Narrative Basics Lesson 1: Characters

Narrative Basics Lesson 2: Action

Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

Narrative Basics Project: Making a getaway

Narrative Basics Project: Revealing secrets and plans

Narrative Basics Project: Worrying about a friend

Narrative distance

Noun groups

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 1: Describing a place

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 2: Describing a person

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 3: Describing a crowd

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 5: Describing the weather

Observing and describing in Storm Boy 6: Describing action

Point of view

Prepositional phrases

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 1: Establishing norms

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 3: A whole new world

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 4: Close encounters

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 5: Exotic technology

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 6: Lasers, camera, action!

Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 7: Cosmic threats

Setting Basics Activity 01: Physical details

Setting Basics Activity 02: World in use

Setting Basics Activity 03: Change over time

Setting Basics Activity 04: Evoking history

Setting Basics Activity 05: Meaning and value

Setting Basics Activity 06: Spatial relationships

Setting Basics Activity 07: Summary description

Setting Basics Activity 08: Expanded description

Setting Basics Activity 09: Checkpoint

Short story hooks with Paul Jennings

Simple sentences

Understanding clauses

Valuing & judging

Verb groups

Writelike Charles Dickens: The fog in Bleak House

Writelike Jane Austen: Mr Darcy at the dance

Writelike Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's monster's lament

Writelike Shakespeare: Macbeth's 'Tomorrow' soliloquy

Contemporary gothic with the Deathly Hallows

Detective comedy with The Falcon's Malteser

First person in That Eye, the Sky

Functional Grammar: Sentence construction lesson pack

Functional Grammar: Word groups lesson pack