ELT365 · Day 198 — Genre-Based Writing
Idea — Genre-based writing teaches that every text type has social purpose and cultural conventions. Learning a genre means learning its purpose, audience, and form. Example…
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ELT365 · Day 197 — Product Writing
Idea — Product writing focuses on the final text — its genre conventions, organisation, and accuracy. Learners study a model, then produce one like it. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 196 — Process Writing
Idea — Process writing treats writing as cyclical — draft, get feedback, revise, draft again. The focus is on improving the text through multiple iterations. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 195 — Writing Sub-Skills
Idea — Writing involves distinct sub-skills: generating ideas, organising, drafting, revising for content, editing for language. Good tasks target specific sub-skills. Example — Brainstorming targets idea…
ReadELT365 · Day 194 — Speaking and Writing Together
Idea — Speaking and writing prepare each other: talk generates ideas; writing organises them. A three-minute discussion before a writing task fills the page. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 167 — Reading: Skimming
Idea — Skimming means reading quickly for a general impression — what the text is about, its tone, its structure. Readers skip freely and skip often.…
ReadELT365 · Day 209 — The dictogloss: where listening meets writing
Idea — A dictogloss is a listening-writing task: the teacher reads a short text at natural speed twice; learners reconstruct it from notes. The reconstruction reveals…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Writing to a real reader: the motivation fix
Idea — Writing for a teacher-examiner is motivationally thin. Writing for a real or imagined audience gives learners a reason to make the text work. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 202 — Paragraph structure for B1+ learners
Idea — A functional paragraph has three parts: a topic sentence that states the main idea, supporting sentences that develop it with examples or reasons, and…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Planning a piece of writing: why bother?
Idea — Planning forces learners to separate content decisions from language decisions. Without it, writers spend working memory on both at once and produce thin, underdeveloped…
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