ELT365 · Day 182 — What productive skills are
Idea — Productive skills are speaking and writing — skills where meaning flows out. Learners encode messages in real time (speaking) or across drafts (writing). Both…
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ELT365 · Day 163 — Extensive reading — volume and fluency
Idea — Extensive reading means reading large amounts of easy, enjoyable material at the learner’s independent level. Quantity builds fluency, vocabulary breadth, and reading speed. The…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Dictogloss — the speaking–writing bridge
Idea — Dictogloss: the teacher reads a short text at natural speed. Learners take notes, then reconstruct it in groups. They produce their own version —…
ReadELT365 · Day 204 — Correcting written work — codes vs direct correction
Idea — Direct correction gives learners the answer; an error code (WW = wrong word; T = tense; Sp = spelling) asks them to find and…
ReadELT365 · Day 203 — Teaching emails and messages — real-world writing tasks
Idea — Emails and messages are among the most frequent writing tasks learners face outside class. Teach them as genres with conventions: subject line, greeting, purpose,…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Paragraph structure — topic sentence and support
Idea — A well-structured paragraph has a topic sentence (the main idea), supporting details (evidence, examples, explanation), and sometimes a concluding sentence. Teach this as a…
ReadELT365 · Day 200 — Register — formal vs informal writing
Idea — Register means the level of formality in language. Learners need to recognise and produce the right register: texting a friend is not the same…
ReadELT365 · Day 199 — Analysing a model text before writing
Idea — Before learners write, they analyse a model for genre features: structure, register, vocabulary choices, cohesion devices. Analysis makes the invisible features of good writing…
ReadELT365 · Day 198 — Peer feedback on writing — making it useful
Idea — Peer feedback works when learners have a clear task: not ‘is it good?’ but ‘find two grammar errors’ or ‘does every paragraph have a…
ReadELT365 · Day 197 — Teaching the planning stage in writing
Idea — Most learners skip planning and write whatever comes first. Teach planning as a skill: brainstorm, select, order. Even two minutes of planning produces more…
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