ELT365 · Day 209 — Academic Writing at B2+
Idea — Academic writing requires formal register, hedging, evidence-based claims, and explicit structure. Teaching it begins with register awareness, not essay format. Example — ‘It seems…
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ELT365 · Day 207 — Paragraph Structure
Idea — A clear paragraph has a topic sentence, supporting detail or evidence, and a concluding link. Teaching this explicitly helps learners at B1 and above.…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Writing Integrated with Reading
Idea — Reading models provide genre exemplars. Learners read to analyse, then write to replicate — analysis feeds production. Example — Read a film review: identify…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Planning a Writing Lesson
Idea — A writing lesson has three stages: pre-writing (generate ideas, activate genre knowledge), writing (draft), and post-writing (feedback, revise). Skip one and quality drops. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 204 — Error Correction in Writing
Idea — Correction in writing can be direct (give the form), indirect (mark the error), or metalinguistic (name the error type). Indirect is often more effective.…
ReadELT365 · Day 203 — Peer Feedback in Writing
Idea — Peer feedback trains learners to read critically, builds editing skills, and removes dependence on the teacher as the sole source of response. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 202 — Feedback on Writing
Idea — Written feedback is most useful when it targets what the learner can improve next — not a comprehensive correction of everything wrong. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Free Writing Tasks
Idea — Free writing gives learners maximum autonomy — topic, form, length, and language are all their choice. It is fluency practice transferred to paper. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 200 — Guided Writing
Idea — Guided writing provides scaffolding — sentence starters, paragraph frames, content prompts — reducing the language load so learners can focus on meaning. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 199 — Writing for a Real Audience
Idea — Writing for a genuine reader produces better work. When someone outside the classroom reads the text, learners attend to clarity and register more carefully.…
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