Sensory Language: How to Add More Detail to Descriptions

by melaniewp | Jan 8, 2014 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, KS2, KS3, Sensory Language, Writing to Describe

What is Sensory Language?Get examples of how to describe light and shadeGet more interesting describing words.Sensory describing words for a forest.How to use sensory language, with examples.

Writing to Argue What Makes a Good Hero?

by melaniewp | Nov 21, 2013 | 11 plus, 11+, Common Entrance, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Writing, Writing to Argue, Writing to Persuade

What makes a good hero?A hero can be someone you look up to, or the main character in a film or book. Yet main characters are not always heroic – or not in obvious ways. Sleeping Beauty spends most of her story unconscious. Little Red Riding Hood escapes the...

How to Write a PEA or PEE or PQC Paragraph for English based on Wonder by R J Palacio

by melaniewp | Nov 13, 2013 | 11 plus, 11+, Analysis, Common Entrance, Comprehension, English Literature, Essay, How to Quote, KS2, KS3, PEA, PEE, PQC, R.J. Palacio, Wonder

Learning to analyse a text in detail will hugely raise your grade. Some teachers call this method Point-Evidence-Explain (PEE). Others call it Point-Evidence-Analyse (PEA), or Point-Quote-Comment (PQC). It’s all the same thing. My own paragraphs usually look...

Writing to Argue ‘Being Bossy is a Good Thing’

by melaniewp | Sep 9, 2013 | 11 plus, 11+, Common Entrance, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Writing to Argue, Writing to Persuade

 This is a ‘writing to argue’ piece that I did with a student aiming for Common Entrance. When she sits, the topic will be ‘Heroes’, so bossiness was an interesting way to consider the issue of leadership. This is pitched fairly high and...

Improve Sentences for the Common Entrance Writing Paper

by melaniewp | Sep 4, 2013 | 11 plus, Common Entrance, Complex Sentences, Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing Paper

If you’re writing a story, how can you make your sentences more interesting? If you’re doing practice exams for Common Entrance or the 11 plus Writing Paper, these examples will help you raise your grade.Example Sentences:[1] There was a tree.Transform...

Practice Comprehension Exercises 11+ 13+ GCSE

by melaniewp | Aug 15, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Comprehension, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE

ATeacherWrites.comGet links to comprehension texts, stepped Common Entrance and GCSE-style exercises from the best of the internet right now. This range of exercises covers all ages and abilities, with difficult vocabulary explained. Click on the picture or title to...