When I started teaching nearly two decades ago, I was a teacher of reading, writing, vocabulary, academic talk, and more. The problem was that I could do reading and writing, but I …
Working Words into Writing
What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words …
How to Write an Edu-book – Part 2
In ‘How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1‘, I had the huge pleasure of sharing with everyone the approaches to writing an edu-book from two of the best edu-book writers around, …
How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1
I often hear the comment “I don’t know how you write books and do the day job“. And well, I usually agree and stumble over some comments about being very tired, but …
Write like J. K. Rowling (as easy as 1-2-3)
The saying goes that everybody has a novel inside them. Now, unless we are diagnosing an unfortunate epidemic that involves a misuse of pulp fiction, it indicates a very common social belief …
The Green Eggs and Ham Hypothosis
Sometimes a research study comes along and confirms what you suspected all along. The ‘Green Eggs and Ham Hypothesis‘ does just that trick for me. Now, ‘Green Eggs and Ham‘ is famously …
Teaching Writing Isn’t Just for English Teachers
(Image credit: Jonathan Kim – https://www.flickr.com/photos/jkim1/452830868) If a student can’t write, all eyes turn to the English department. Whether it is a brief in an Art lesson or a write up of a …
Concise and Precise Micro-writing
After over a decade of teaching English I am still finding new approaches and understanding more about how students learn to write. In the last year or so, my thinking has developed …
Teacher Blogging
Blogging reviews of the year have been written; a new year is already rolling and a new school term beckons. It is a time for an end to excess food, excess drink …
Thank you
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G. K. Chesterton This post is a small but tenderly felt thank you …
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