Key Points for Writing Practise Essays
CPD: You Can't Revise for GCSE English! (by Mark Roberts), topic 2.1.5
Top 5 to Thrive
Here are five top tips to help students improve their practice essays:
Ingredients
- Students should make sure their essays include the key ingredients of a good essay.
Prepare
- Prepare high-quality practice paragraphs and full essays in advance.
Plan
- Planning introductions, main body paragraphs, and conclusions, may help students, in addition to using my structures and examples if they're stuck.
Relating questions
- Students may need to think carefully about which questions are similar to each other, which allows students to use a similar response.
Widen the meaning
- Practising widening the meaning of the question can help students play to their strengths.
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