For those who can’t write and those who won’t. For those bursting with ideas – for stories, arguments, opinions – that they can’t get down on paper. For exams. For fun.
Handwriting
+ FREE handwriting worksheets with video lessons
+ When they can barely hold a pen
+ How to teach kids to improve handwriting (without tears)
+ How to print your own FREE handwriting worksheets
Vocabulary
+ How to improve your child’s vocabulary
+ ‘Use more hard words’: improving vocabulary in writing
+ How to write more interesting description
+ Words Every Brilliant Person Should Know
Essay Writing
+ How to Write an Essay
Creative Writing
Techniques Writers Use
+ Complete List : suitable for Level 6-GCSE A*
+ Describing Setting or Place
+ Alliteration
+ Onomatopoeia
+ Antithesis [Basic] [Advanced]
+ Oxymorons
+ How to Write About Connotations
+ What is a Semantic Field?
+ Personification [Prezi on Personification]
+ Similes [basic]
+ Metaphor [difference to similes] [Prezi on Metaphor]
+ Extended Metaphor
+ Pathetic Fallacy
+ Sensory Language
Common Problems: If Your Teacher Says-
+ Avoid Using ‘I’ All the Time
Include + More Interesting Description
Use the Past Tense Throughout
Add More Detail: + sensory language, + pathetic fallacy, +onomatopoeia
How to Improve
+ Level 4 > Level 5 > + Level 6 > + Level 7 > Level 8
GCSE Grade C > B > A > A*