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Crafting Clues: A 5-hour Mystery Writing Workshop

Common Room provides dynamic creative writing courses for children aged 7 to 15, delivered by Cambridge certified teachers of English.

About the Class

Calling all our young mystery story lovers to join our newest creative writing course, Crafting Clues, for 9-14 year olds!

Our 5-day course is the perfect opportunity for young minds to dive into the world of mystery stories.

During this immersive journey, children will have the chance to:

  • Create their very own detective character, complete with a unique personality and backstory, ready to solve perplexing cases.
  • Master the art of foreshadowing and misdirection to craft a suspenseful mystery plot.
  • Expand their vocabulary, allowing them to paint vivid, mysterious landscapes with words.
  • Finally, they’ll have the opportunity to put their newfound skills to the test and write their very own mystery story, weaving together all the elements they’ve learned.

As always, the course comes with a downloadable PDF workbook that includes a capsule sized summary of each lesson, as well as optional at-home practice tasks, to help your child get the best out of the course.

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About Common Room

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Common Room is an online platform that offers fun and engaging creative writing courses and resources for children of ages 7 to 15.

Traditionally, a common room is a shared lounge, often attached to dorm rooms in boarding schools, where students socialize, have late-night study sessions, host house parties and engage in other after-school activities. Drawing inspiration from this much-loved space, Common Room is an initiative to create a shared virtual learning space for young learners, to engage in magical learning experiences.

Crafting Clues course is delivered by Miss Riya.

Riya is a post graduate in English Literature and a Cambridge Certified trainer of English. As part of her career at the APL Global School and British Council, she has experience in delivering lessons to children and adults of various age groups and language proficiency levels.

She has a wide array of teaching experience, which includes delivering personalized lessons to a diverse range of students including first generation learners, children with special needs and foreign nationals. This has helped her to imbibe teaching and assessment strategies that meet her learner's special needs and feed their interests.

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