Course Highlights
- Price: Guaranteed Low Price
- Level: Level 3 CPD Award
- Course Type: 100% Online Course
- Syllabus: 13 course modules
- Duration: 26 hours, guided
- Exams: Yes, included
- Accreditation: CPD Certification
- Certificate: Digital PDF Certificate included, optional Hard Copies £9.99
- Tutor Support: Support included
- Access: 12 Months, 24/7 Unlimited
- Compatibility: Any Browser Device
Course Overview
The online Children’s Writing Course from Oplex Careers aims to provide great insight into the skills and knowledge related to writing great stories aimed at a younger audience, learning key skills to help you develop your story, writing your backstory, developing characters and more.
The online Children’s Writing Course will provide learners with a strong insight and understanding into learning key writing skills aimed at children’s stories.
This course will discuss the key skills and knowledge related to key writing skills, developing key characters, coming up with a backstory and more. This course will provide a great insight into this field of study with the use of practical examples throughout the course.
Whether working in this field already, you want to get started working in within the field of writing aimed at a younger audience, or just interested in this field of study, this course will cover a range of modules and provide multiple examples for assessment.
The Writing for Children Course is divided into 13 carefully selected modules making it easy to follow along in your own time and at your own pace.
You’ll have 24/7 access to the online course materials, assessment test, online exams, introductory video tutorial, study resources and our amazing student support services.
Enrolling on the Level 3 Writing for Children Course is easy, just click to ‘Add to Basket’ button to start your learning journey.
Course Syllabus
As part of the Writing for Children Course students will learn:
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Why are you interested in writing children’s books
- Do you have great and sufficient ideas
- Is it easier to write for kids as opposed to writing books for adults
- Other mistaken beliefs about writing books for children
- What it means to write books for children
- Jobs and opportunities for professional children’s book writers
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Writer’s tools
- Time management skills
- Why you should use perfect grammar and spelling
- Personal skills for children’s writers
- Skills that writers can develop to improve their skills
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Read Children’s books with children and alone
- Children’s picture books for new readers
- First chapter book examples
- Other children’s books
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Children’s book categories
- Do not act quickly
- Point of view
- Choosing the right perspective
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Examples of successful books for great first lines
- Useful tips for the first page of your book
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Ways of generating ideas for book characters
- Creating characters depending on your target age bracket
- Characteristics of a real and appealing character
- Ways of developing ideas for your character
- Ways of making your characters look real
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- The meaning of a plot
- How to generate ideas for your plot
- The traditional structure of a plot
- Ways of developing plot ideas
- Ways of structuring your plan
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- The meaning of backstory
- Why backstory is important in children’s books
- The effects of using backstory incorrectly
- When to include or avoid a backstory
- Effective wats of including backstory in your story
- Using backstory according to your target reader’s age
- Backstory exercise
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Reasons for incorporating dialogue in your story
- Using realistic dialogue
- Ways of incorporating engaging dialogue in your story
- The essential aspects of dialogue
- Writing dialogue with different ages in mind
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- The challenged experienced by writers
- Driving out your critical inner voice
- Get started and do the work
- How to overcome writer’s block
- Get motivated
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- The self-publishing process
- Steps for conventional publishing
- Celebrate when a publisher accepts your manuscript
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- Understanding illustrations
- Illustrated books for conventional publishing
- Illustrations for self-published books
- Summary
In this module of the course we will cover:
- Introduction
- The importance of writing exercises
- First page writing exercises
- Ending exercises
- Exercises for creating scenes based on observation
- Exercises for setting creation
- Perspective exercises
- Exercises for overcoming writer’s block
- Exercises for dialogue
- Exercises for every aspect of writing
- Writing prompts
- Writing blogs
- Participating in writing competitions
- Online forums
- Summary
The final assessment test is an online interactive examination containing 50 questions to be completed within a 60 minute time frame.
The final assessment will contain questions from all modules and topics covered within the course.
The results from the final assessment test will count 100% towards the final grade for the course.
The results are instantaneous so learners will be informed straight away as to how they have performed on the assessment.
If for any reason you don’t pass first time around you have unlimited exam retakes.
Accreditation for Writing for Children
Upon successful completion of this Writing for Children Course student will be awarded with a CPD Accredited Certification in:
Level 3 CPD Award in Writing for Children
Here at Oplex Careers we are an accredited CPD training provider and your certificate will include the recognised CPD stamp from our awarding organisation.
The CPD certificate will showcase your achievement in this course and provide proof to any future employers or academic institutions that you have gained the skills from this course and are now certified.
Certificate
On successful completion of this Level 3 Writing for Children Course you will receive your CPD Certificate.
You can add the certification to your CV and include it as part of your portfolio of evidence.
The certificate will include the course you have undertaken, the grade you have achieved, your full name, date of completion, and a certificate verification number.
This certificate will be produced in Digital PDF format, hard copies of the certificate will be available at an additional fee of £9.99.
As part of the online Writing for Children Course you will receive full access to our tutor and student support services. Our friendly student support team want you to succeed in your studies and achieve the best possible grade. We are here to help!
Students will have full 24/7 unlimited access for 12 months from the date of joining on the Writing for Children Course.
This online Writing for Children Course will work on all major web browsers and smartphone devices. All you need is an internet, 3G, 4G or 5G connection.
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