A long time ago, I was an English teacher. One of my students wrote this in her journal: “I’m so ashaymed I cant spell”. And the ‘a’ in “can’t” was a ‘u’. Yikes. What do you think I did with that sentence? Circled the errors with a red pen? No way! I left those...
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Homework for a 12-year-old this week goes a little like this: Instead of writing a new piece, focus on improving the six writing traits from an existing piece. FYI, the six writing traits are: sentence fluency ideas* organisation word choice voice conventions (e.g. grammar) Critically reviewing your own work can be pretty tough going,...
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