At Sensory Learning Services, we offer 8 week writing courses designed specifically for primary school and secondary students up to Yr 7, struggling with the following skills:
- Sentence construction
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
What makes our approach different to what is taught at school?
- We specialise in writing intervention all day, everyday!
- We know what best practice looks like
- We know how to simplify instruction for struggling students
Writing is a lot like cooking…you follow a recipe and eventually you learn to remember it. Firstly, depending on the ingredients you choose, will determine how the recipe tastes!! Then, as your confidence in your cooking abilities improves you learn to substitute one ingredient for another and discover what tastes better.
At Sensory Learning Services, we use this simple analogy to teach sentence structure, narratives and persuasives. The recipe is what we refer to as a ‘writing framework’ and the ingredients are our choice of ‘words/vocabulary’.
You may have heard the following expressions:
“A cook is only as good as the ingredients they use.”
and
” A chef’s magic is their ingredients.”
Often we want to try out a recipe but sometimes we don’t have the ingredients in the pantry to access. This is what happens to many of our struggling students. At school, they have been taught or provided with a recipe to follow (known as a writing framework), but unfortunately they don’t have the ingredients to add (known as “limited expressive vocabulary”). Consequently, these students find writing to be a frustrating challenge.
With our simple approach, we provide students with checklists, vocabulary lists and sentence starting prompts to construct sentences for a range of writing frameworks. Consequently, this reduces their fears around writing, allowing them to attempt writing tasks with ease and to eventually experiment with different vocabulary with confidence.
What 8 week courses do we offer?
Writing skills MUST be explicitly taught, so we have created 4 different writing courses to target 4 different areas we know students struggle with:
- Simple & Compound Sentence Writing
- Hook Sentences using speech marks
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
When?
- Thursday afternoons – includes 8 x 90-minute weekly sessions scheduled within a school term.
- Term 1 2024 commences THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1st – THURSDAY 21st MARCH
Where?
- 48 Lombardy Street Woodlands – Community of Christ Church Hall
Time?
Select from:
- 3:30pm – 5pm (includes a 10min brain break)
How many students per group?
- 4 students to 1 tutor
Groups capped at 4 students to ensure each child receives the attention they deserve and the support they need.
Cost?
- $715
- No initial intake fee or assessment process is required to attend this program
- Missed sessions can not be refunded
How to enrol?
- Select the 8 week writing course you want for your child
- Book a 15 min chat to discuss or send an enquiry with your details via our contact page and mention Writing Course
- If you enrol with a friend, each student will receive a 10% discount.
