Name: Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest
Brand: Commonwealth Education Trust
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.7 (538 reviews)

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About the Course

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell....

Top reviews

Aug 26, 2023

its one of the best courses I have completed. just wonderful..very precise, revelant subjects and topics and very good activities. thankyou coursera. it was like meditation to me doing this course.

May 20, 2018

I really enjoyed this course, though I never imagined myself as a writer of childrens fiction, it may very well look like, that my first book, might be exactly that.Thank you to the great teachers.

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By Monica B C

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May 22, 2020

Yo envío mis trabajos, pero dice que estoy atrasada y no se como revisar el porque del atraso. Necesito ayuda. Gracias

By Eddie M

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Dec 21, 2015

The last two weeks of this course held great information. However, the first three weeks seemed to lack focus.

By Mogeeb A R M

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Feb 3, 2020

Nice course for writers in the start of their career, specially those intending to write for children.

By Ana O

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Sep 3, 2015

I enjoyed the course but I would prefered it to be longer. I found the second part more useful.

By Kate M K

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Aug 20, 2021

A very good introduction for writing stories. Lots of useful, practical advice. Thank you.

By Bel K

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Dec 17, 2021

This course has some really good information about writing for young people.

By Annabelle k l

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Oct 26, 2015

Its intresting but often feels repetitive and more like advertising.

By Thomasybruce

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Sep 8, 2015

The interviews and course discussion are invaluable in this course.

By Amy

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Mar 24, 2016

Pretty basi

By Maureen M

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May 1, 2021

I really enjoyed this course and the others I have taken through Coursera as well, but I am frustrated with the marking system! Some peers don’t fully understand the criteria or they are scammers, give 0% and tell you to take their English as a second language course. The system should figure out how to flag these people somehow. If I got 100% from one and a 0% from another that should tell you something.