After School Fiction Writing Program
Equip your students with skills for career and for life, all after their mandatory work is finished for the day.
Writing
Critical Thinking
Overcoming Conflicts
Enthusiastic Students Writing Their Own Stories
Give your students something that excites them about staying after school. When they learn how to write their own fiction stories, they can set their imagination free and create stories they’ll share with friends and family. They’ll get to create characters and plots and conflicts and failures and successes.
Writing and revising stories motivates students to improve their grammar, spelling, punctuation, and communication skills. Those skills will apply to their schoolwork and to their careers.
They’ll also explore relationships and challenges and alternatives, developing critical thinking skills that equip them for succeeding in life.
Courses that make teaching fun and easy
Separate courses for upper elementary, middle school, and high school students teach all the aspects of writing great fiction.
Group and Individual Activities
Fun activities are provided so students can create interesting characters, exciting plots, realistic settings, and important goals.
Share stories to receive and give helpful feedback
Students can share their stories with the class, or with the site as a whole (whichever you prefer) and received detailed feedback from their peers on what they’re doing right and where things can be improved.
Encouraging, supportive, safe environment
The system forbids profanity, sex, and bullying. The students work together so they learn to write their own stories with their own styles, while at the same time encouraging others to constantly grow in their abilities.
Students explore life safely
Because students can have a lot of difficulty expressing their challenges and internal fears and traumas, they sometimes act out in destructive behaviors. But writing fiction allows them to put things into a safer environment, expressing their hopes and dreams and goals and challenges and setbacks in a meaningful context. They channel their emotions into stories of depth and complexity, learning not only how to write engaging stories but also how to handle the hard things life throws.
Special Needs Welcome
ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and other Difficulties
Some students find the mental and physical challenges of writing almost overwhelming. We include special instructions on using computer dictation and transcription to help these students compose their stories in a way that gives them the same opportunities as others. There’s no reason a child can’t write a story with today’s technology, and such an approach is fully embraced with this program.
Writing Skills
New skills and reinforcement
Students learn to write because they want to know how to write great stories Learn More
Critical Thinking
Analysis, Design, Choices, Consequences
Student create a multitude of ways to resolve conflicts, then analyze them, design what works and doesn’t, create choices and consequences, then work out the failures or successes Learn More
Overcoming Challenges
Stories are really goals for the protagonist, then overcoming challenges to reach their goals
By writing about conflicts and overcoming the forces stopping their characters from reaching their goals, students are emboldened themselves Learn More
Meet and Exceed Testing Standards
A lot of boring exercises aren’t equal to a student’s own motivations
By wanting to share their stories, students are motivated to incorporate the best grammar rules, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation. There’s simply no comparison to a bunch of boring alternatives Learn More
Exploring Possibilities and Expanding Minds
Students choose their own stories, exploring the reaches of their imagination
By choosing their genres and conflicts and plots, students expand their thinking into creative paths that can’t be duplicated through someone else’s ideas. Learn More
Life Skills
Relationships, conflicts, resolutions, and fighting for what they believe
Students explore the human experience through creating their own stories, learning how to cope with challenges and faults, failures and successes, and making their own achievements Learn More
Weekly Assignments to stay on track
All lesson plans give you the flexibility to teach what the students need even when they miss time for sickness or other activities.
Teaching and Learning
Each lesson begins with a series of short topics
Students quickly learn what they need using topics and examples that make sense
Activities
Activities provide ways to quickly apply what they’ve learned
Activities are directly related to the lessons and to their current story
Writing the Story
Write the story first without worrying about all the rules
It’s always best to get the fundamental story written using the student’s full imagination and creativity. Nothing gets in the way of telling an engaging story.
Revising the Story
Revise into a second or third version to make the story better
Once a solid story is in place, the student goes back and makes the characters and plot and setting and dialogue even better. They also fix all the grammar and punctuation and such so the stories can be shared.
Learn to Write by Writing!
There’s no better way to learn to write than by, well, writing! These courses are designed for students to write multiple stories while adding new knowledge as they go along. When the story becomes the focus, the technical pieces become something to embrace. Story first, revisions and rules second, is the driving force behind engaged and excited student learning.
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You and your students will write a stories as part of your class even if you don’t continue with the program
You’ll see students begin to improve even in this short time
What do you stand to lose other than bored, distracted student faces?
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