ELT365 · Day 204 — Paragraphing and organisation
Idea — A paragraph holds one main idea, often with a topic sentence and support. Teaching learners to plan paragraphs before writing prevents the wall-of-text that…
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ELT365 · Day 203 — Linking devices and discourse markers
Idea — Linkers (however, therefore, for example) and discourse markers signal how ideas relate — contrast, result, addition. Used well they guide the reader; overused they…
ReadELT365 · Day 202 — Cohesion and coherence
Idea — Coherence is whether ideas hang together logically; cohesion is the surface glue — pronouns, linkers, repetition — that signals the links. Learners often have…
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ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Genre shapes writing
Idea — Every genre — email, review, narrative, report — has conventions of structure, register and layout. Teaching the genre's shape before writing gives learners a…
ReadGenerational Trauma Stops Here
My parents loved me. I believe that completely. They also hurt me. I believe that completely too. These two things are not contradictions. They are the…
ReadELT365 · Day 200 — The stages of writing
Idea — Writing is rarely linear: planning, drafting, revising and editing loop and overlap. Teaching the stages explicitly stops learners treating a first draft as a…
ReadELT365 · Day 196 — Clear instructions and ICQs
Idea — Instructions should be short, staged and demonstrated, not explained at length. Instruction-checking questions (ICQs) confirm learners understood the task before they begin, preventing wasted…
ReadFive Languages, One Voice: Why I Never Felt Smart Enough
I speak five languages. Bengali is the first one — the one I dreamed in as a child, the one I still argue in when I…
ReadELT365 · Day 199 — Writing: process and product
Idea — The product approach studies and copies model texts; the process approach treats writing as drafting, revising and editing. Most effective teaching blends them —…
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