- Is your child still unsure how to construct a sentence?
- Are they unsure of where a full stop goes?
- Do they ramble?
- Do they lack detail?
At Sensory Learning Services, we run 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 continue to 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. The benefit of this approach is that is reduces their fears around writing, allowing them to attempt writing tasks with ease and to eventually experiment with different vocabulary with confidence.
What 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. These courses will be offered at various times throughout the year.
- Simple & Compound Sentence Writing – Term 1 2025 for Yrs 2 & 3
- Hook Sentences using speech marks
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
When?
- Monday afternoons – 8 x 90-minute weekly sessions scheduled within the school term.
- Term 1 2025 commences MONDAY FEBRUARY 10th – MONDAY 7th APRIL (Excl Labour day on 3rd March)
Where?
- 48 Lombardy Street Woodlands – Community of Christ Church Hall
Time?
- 3:30pm – 5pm (sessions allow time for a brain break)
How many students per group?
- 4 students to 1 teacher
Groups capped at max 4 students to ensure each child receives the attention they deserve and the support they need.
Cost?
- $880 for the term – upfront payment is required to secure your child’s place
- No initial intake fee or assessment process is required to attend this program
- Missed sessions can not be rescheduled refunded
How to enrol?
- Go to the booking page to see which courses are available -these will change from term to term.
- To find out more, send an enquiry with your details via our contact page and mention Writing Course. Alternatively, send a text enquiry to 0422708877.
