Workshops

Want to learn how to structure, write and deliver an effective and persuasive argument? Our workshops can help. We offer workshops for businesses, schools, and community organisations across Kalgoorlie-Boulder, with affordable pricing for each option.

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How it works:

1. Contact us for a free quote

We'll discuss what you want from the workshop and how many people will be attending.

2. We'll arrange a time

Our workshops typically run for 2-3 hours, but we can be flexible on the details.

3. We'll see you at the workshop!

School specific information

Below are a list of WA SCSA Curriculum Learning Outcomes which our workshops can be connected to.

Primary outcome:

WA4ELYC2: Plan, rehearse and deliver structured oral and/or multimodal presentations to report on a topic, tell a story, recount events or present an argument using subjective and objective language, complex sentences, visual features, tone, pace, pitch and volume.

Secondary outcomes:

WA4ELAI1: Explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations.

WA4ELAI2: Identify the subjective language of opinion and feeling, and the objective language of factual reporting.

WA4ELAT1: Identify how texts across learning areas are typically organised into stages and phases and use language features appropriate to purpose.

WA4ELYA1: Identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text.

Primary outcome:

WA5ELYC2: Plan, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features.

Secondary outcomes:

WA5ELAI1: Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships.

WA5ELAI2: Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources.

WA5ELAT1: Compare how texts across learning areas are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases and use language features depending on purposes in texts.

WA5ELYI1: Use appropriate interaction skills, including paraphrasing and critical literacy questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea.

WA5ELYA1: Explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text.

Primary outcome:

WA6ELYC2: Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features.

Secondary outcomes:

WA6ELAI2: Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias.

WA6ELAT1: Explain how texts across learning areas are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features.

WA6ELAT2: Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations.

WA6ELYA1: Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text and engage and influence audiences.

Primary outcome:

WA7ELYC2: Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice, including volume, tone, pitch and pace.

Secondary outcomes:

WA7ELAI1: Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities.

WA7ELAT1: Identify and describe how text structures and language features vary in texts according to purpose.

WA7ELYI1: Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, including evaluations of the features of spoken texts.

WA7ELYA1: Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to purpose and audience.

WA7ELYA2: Explain how ideas are organised through the use of text structures, such as taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology.

Primary outcome:

WA8ELYC2: Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical.

Secondary outcomes:

WA8ELAI1: Recognise how language shapes relationships and roles.

WA8ELAI2: Understand how layers of meaning can be created within a text by using literary devices, such as simile and metaphor to evaluate.

WA8ELAT1: Explain how text structures and language features vary depending on their purpose, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres.

WA8ELAT2: Understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims.

WA8ELIEN2: Explain how language and/or visual and audio features in texts position listeners, readers and viewers to respond and form perspectives.

WA8ELIEX2: Analyse how language features, such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices, such as imagery create meaning and effect.

WA8ELYA1: Analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text.

Primary outcome:

WA9ELYC2: Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice, such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.

Secondary outcomes:

WA9ELAI1: Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles.

WA9ELAI2: Understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor.

WA9ELALA4: Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone.

WA9ELIEX2: Analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices, such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references.

WA9ELYI1: Listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interaction skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts.

WA9ELYA1: Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group.

Primary outcome:

WA10ELYC2: Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.

Secondary outcomes:

WA10ELAI1: Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people.

WA10ELAI2: Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual's values.

WA10ELAT1: Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose.

WA10ELYA1: Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes.

WA10ELYA2: Analyse and evaluate how authors and creators use text structures to organise ideas and achieve a purpose.

  • Understand the relationships between purpose, context and audience and how these relationships influence texts and their meanings.

  • Investigate how text structures and language features are used to communicate ideas and represent people and events in a range of texts.

  • Create oral, written and multimodal texts appropriate for different audiences, purposes and contexts.

  • Understand relationships between texts, audiences, purposes, genres and contexts.

  • Investigate the effects of different conventions on responses.

  • Create oral, written and multimodal texts in a range of styles.

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