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What a good idea. I hadn't considered this before. Thank you.

Good tips.

Thank you. I can see that my lessons can be so much more than what they are now.

Good tips and reminders - thank you.

'Promo SM' 🙂

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I totally agree with you Sue! We are doing a lot more exercise book work, particularly with the juniors, this year and I have found the students love the 1-1 attention of getting it marked. My junior students love to do a writing journal activity every week - where they choose from three questions to write a paragraph about eg "What is the scariest thing you have ever done" or "Write about a time you lost something." (I ask students to pick from a selection of question cards). We start the writing Journal at the back of their exercise books - so it is like a journal entry/post. I use a youtube timer - and my students talk about their experiences in groups of 3-4 for 5 minutes first. Then have 10 minutes to write their draft (youtube timer with quiet relaxing music is nice for everyone!) Then they edit and proofread their work. Finally they read their passage to another person (10 minute timer again) to discuss their writing. They put their hands up as they finish their work and I conference with them. I quickly draw a funny little smiley face (with hair and eyelashes if it is excellent work!) and a little comment and they seem to love it! I also draw/write little anchor charts of aspects of grammar they struggled with in speech bubbles. I learn a lot about my students from doing this activity. It also has the added bonus of them speaking constructively to each other during the class which is important for ESOL students and they also get to know each other better!

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Awesome idea. I teach year 7 ans 8's at a High School, and my students really struggle with punctuation, going to try drop a dot ♡

That is such a good idea! Cheers Michelle

This is so good, Sue. Thank you. I love what you have said about substituting the word 'theme' for 'idea'. That makes it soooo much easier. Another thing that I have found useful over the years if students cannot come up with a 'topic' (idea) for their text is to brainstorm as many abstract nouns as they can think of and then highlighting those that they think pertain to their text, i.e 'justice' /'injustice', 'happiness' etc. Then they put those into a sentence." The author wants us to understand the idea that 'justice' is something that citizens often have to fight for in their societies.'

This is great and easy for students to do. Great idea!