Children's Writing 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 10 lessons:

1. Introduction
   • Understanding Children
   • Children's thoughts
   • Children's needs
   • Child development.
2. Overview of Children’s Writing
   • Categories (fiction & non fiction)
   • Understanding the market place
   • Analyse and understand what is needed for the different categories, etc.
3. Conceptualisation: Conceiving a concept
   • Where & how to find inspiration/influence.
   • Developing a concept
   • How to plan
4. Children’s Writing for Periodicals
   • Children’s pages in magazines
   • Newspapers, etc
5. Short Stories
6. Non-Fiction
   • Texts (writing to satisfy curriculum).
   • Other (eg. nature, history, biography, hobbies)
7. Fiction
   • Settings
   • Characterisation
   • Fantasy
   • Science fiction
   • Adventure
8. Picture Books and Story Books
9. Editing your work
   • Grammar
   • Spelling & punctuation
   • Improving clarity
   • Cleaning out clutter
   • Expansions.
10. Project
    • Write a short story, picture book or kids page for a (hypothetical) periodical.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.