Children’s Writing Course - Level 3 CPD Accredited

Oplex Careers

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.

Course Syllabus

The Children’s Writing Course is split into the following modules:

• Introduction to Writing Children’s Books

– 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

• Tools and Skills for Children’s Writers

– 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

• Learning from Other Successful Children’s Writers

– 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

• Choosing the Right Perspective for a Particular Age Group

– Introduction
– Children’s book categories
– Do not act quickly
– Point of view
– Choosing the right perspective
– Summary

• Writing your First Page and Creating the Right Setting

– Introduction
– Examples of successful books for great first lines
– Useful tips for the first page of your book
– Summary

• Building a Good Character for Children’s Books

– 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

• Planning a Perfect Story Plot

– 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

• Incorporating an Interesting Backstory

– 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

• Writing Dialogue for a Flowing Story

– 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

• Creating a Sense of Purpose and Building Confidence

– 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

• Publishing and Selling your Books

– Introduction
– The self-publishing process
– Steps for conventional publishing
– Celebrate when a publisher accepts your manuscript
– Summary

• Writing Stories with Illustrations

– Introduction
– Understanding illustrations
– Illustrated books for conventional publishing
– Illustrations for self-published books
– Summary

• Practical Exercises for Writers

– 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

• Final Assessment

Assessment

To assess the learners ability and knowledge to effectively understand the topics contained within the Children’s Writing Course, the course features a number of end of module interactive quiz questions.

Additionally, at the end of the course learners will also take an online multiple choice assessment test. This online multiple choice test is marked automatically so you will receive an instant grade and know whether you have passed the course.

Certificate

On successful completion of this Children’s Writing Course student will receive a Level 3 CPD Certification. This certificate will be produced in PDF format, hard copies of the certificate will be available at an additional fee of £9.99.

Course Format

This course is delivered online through eLearning. Learners of the course will receive instant access to our interactive student learning portal, which offers 24/7 access to the Children’s Writing Course.

Course Duration

The online Children’s Writing Course requires 26 hours to complete the course in full. This is only a guide to the learning hours required and it depends on how quickly an individual can absorb the information. The learning is online so it can be spread out over multiple sessions or done in one session.

Learners will have access to this course for up to 12 months from the date of joining. There is no time limit to complete the course during this period.

Tutor Support

When you are studying a course it is always useful to know that you have the help and support of tutors that want you to succeed in your studies.

As part of the Children’s Writing Course you will receive access to our dedicated tutor support service. The academic tutors will be able to provide you with unlimited online email support to help answer any questions that you may have whilst you are studying the course.

Course Compatibility

Our Children’s Writing Course is fully compatible with PC’s, Mac’s, Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone devices.

We know that more and more people are using the web whilst they are on the move, so we have designed this Children’s Writing Course to be fully compatible across tablet and smartphone devices. You will be able to access the same content from the course, just over a 3G or 4G network whilst on the move.

There are no specific entry requirements to join this course with Oplex Careers. All you need to study this course is an internet connection.