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 buries meaning.…
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English Teaching June 23, 2026
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 clog the…
English Teaching June 22, 2026
ELT365 · 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 ideas but…
English Teaching June 22, 2026
ELT365 · 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 frame instead…
English Teaching June 22, 2026
ELT365 · 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 finished text.…
English Teaching June 22, 2026
ELT365 · 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 — a model…