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...
by melaniewp | Aug 12, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, First Person, KS2, KS3, Omniscient Narrator, Second Person, Third Person
What is First Person?Any writing that is told mostly using: I I I I I I I I I I I I I me me me me me me. It is from the point of view of someone telling their own story to the reader.Is it still first person if… there is more than one person telling their...
by melaniewp | Aug 12, 2013 | 11+, Connectives, English Tuition, Grammar, KS2, Private Tutor
These simple connectives can help KS2 students add more detail to their writing. The most basic connectives are: and, or, but, because, then. Then: who, which, that – which all introduce a relative clause. Words like however, therefore and as...
by melaniewp | Aug 11, 2013 | 11+, Adjectives, English Tuition, Grammar, KS2, Private Tutor
Today we learned about describing words, also known as adjectives. We were a mixed age KS2 group of ages 7-10 and we tried to think of as many adjectives as we could. We wrote them on the board with the explanations of what the words mean. The older students then...
by melaniewp | May 12, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Pictures for Stories
The image above is an artwork created by artist Lori Nix, but the images below are all real. Let your imagination explore these strange and unsettling locations.Get all creative writing resources here, including more interesting vocabulary for colours, smells,...
by melaniewp | Apr 9, 2013 | Commas, Commas Exercises, Connectives, Full Stops, Full Stops Exercises, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation Exercises, Subordinate conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions turn a sentence: Cats make me sneeze. into a non-sentence: it’s like magic!When cats make me sneeze.orBecause cats make me sneeze.orIf cats make me sneeze.orAs long as cats make me sneeze.orAlthough cats...
