Elephant Community Press offers the exciting opportunity to publish your own English school newspaper, written by and for your students, with the guidance of an ECP teacher. This interest group or after-school activity gives students of all levels an opportunity to write in English and be published.

Students in our Young Reporters workshop learn the basic skills of journalism and develop news stories and features about events, students and teachers in your school community. With 2 issues published every term, students gain valuable experience of writing and reporting on a deadline.

Workshop topics include:

• Parts of a newspaper
  
• Structure of a news article
  
• Conducting interviews
  
• Writing different genres within a newspaper
  (E.g. advice columns, book and movie reviews, feature articles, etc.)

In the Young Writers workshop, advanced English students are challenged with a wide range of creative writing topics to further develop their English writing skills. Students read model texts in different genres, look at the techniques used by real writers and learn to write creative pieces of their own. Model texts include ECP publications as well as classic children’s stories read around the world. Finished pieces are collected and published once a term in a professionally printed, glossy school English literary magazine.

Workshop topics include:

Adding descriptive detail and dramatic action Writing convincing dialogue Bringing characters to life Developing strong endings