Your Author Workshops

Class 4 – Year 4 Workshop

With plenty of tasks and tips, Tom McLaughlin takes you through developing human AND animal characters, creating your main character, how to develop the outline for a story, some great tips for illustration and finally explore how the story will play out – how will you resolve the drama? And to finish off, he answers your questions!

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Class 5 – Year 5 Workshop

Here Emma Carroll encourages children to go on a writing adventure by creating heroes and villains, planning their journeys, drawing maps and plotting their own epic, magical stories. Focusing specifically on The Somerset Tsunami, she discusses and shares tips on writing historical adventures based on true stories/events. At the end, Emma answers some of the questions that you sent in.

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