Ideas to Spark Narrative Writing

Fuel your students’ imaginations with this new course from Andrell Education's Samantha Taylor. You'll gain powerful tools to inspire creative writing in your classroom, learn how to use visual prompts, scaffolding, and differentiation strategies to help every student feel confident, organised, and excited to write their own stories.

  • Targeted to

    Primary Teachers

  • 2 Hours

    Course Duration

  • Standards

    2.5

  • Star rating

    New course

NSW Teachers: This Course Counts Towards Your PD Hours

This course was published after the August 2024 NESA changes and as a result, does not carry NESA accreditation. From now on, all professional development activities, whether previously accredited or not, now count towards your required PD hours.Rest assured, this course maintains the same high standards as all ClassCover Learn courses. While NESA is no longer accrediting new PD courses, the flexibility of the new framework means you can explore more topics that interest you and still meet your accreditation requirements. Learn more

About this course

Ideas to Spark Narrative Writing is a practical and inspiring course designed to help primary school teachers unlock their students’ creative potential. Participants will explore a rich repertoire of techniques—including visual stimuli and writing prompts—to support imaginative idea generation. The course also focuses on strategies that help students organise and develop their thoughts before writing, reducing cognitive overload and building confidence from the very first sentence. With a strong emphasis on scaffolding and differentiation, teachers will learn how to tailor support to meet the diverse needs of their learners, ensuring every child feels equipped and empowered to write. 

You will:

  • Build a repertoire of techniques such as the use of images and writing prompts to support students generate a range of ideas when writing imaginatively 
  • Learn strategies to help students develop their ideas more coherently before they start writing, reducing cognitive overload and providing them with the confidence and expertise to start the writing process  
  • Understand how to provide adequate scaffolding and to differentiate to support all learners in developing ideas to write about 

Samantha Taylor

Educator & Owner of Andrell Education
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About the presenter

Samantha Taylor is an experienced educator and owner of Andrell Education. For over 12 years, Sammy has presented both in Australia and internationally on the Big Write and VCOP (vocabulary, connectors, openers, and punctuation) methodologies. Through her work with Andrell Education, Sammy is passionate about raising writing standards in junior school students across Australia.