Looking for a Year 5–6 selective school English tutor? This term’s novel study is built for strong readers heading toward selective school or scholarship exams — a story with real narrative complexity, not just a good plot.
What This Class Is About
We read the award-winning A Ghost in a Suitcase by Gabrielle Wang, which weaves together Chinese mythology and a real search for identity: half-French, half-Chinese Celeste discovers she’s inherited her grandmother’s gift for ghost hunting.
What We’re Covering This Term
- Meeting Celeste: the mystery, the family history, and the world of the story.
- Literary devices & suspense: how the author builds tension and foreshadowing across the novel.
- Family history & cultural heritage: exploring the themes of identity and grief that give the story its depth.
- Vocabulary & complex sentences: the more advanced language skills this level of writing demands.
- Creative writing: applying these techniques to the students’ own suspenseful, character-driven writing.
Why It Matters
Selective and scholarship creative writing tests whether a child can handle a more sophisticated narrative structure and real cultural depth — not just write a tidy story. This unit is a genuine step up, using exactly that kind of book.
Mica Academy teaches this class live online, so your child gets a qualified English tutor whether you’re in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or anywhere else in Australia.
Term 3 runs 18 July – 25 September. Spots are limited — get in touch to enrol your child.