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7 Simple and Quick Editing Tips That Will Elevate Your Writing - Grammarly Blog Guest post by Matt Banner It doesn’t matter if you’re a New York Times bestselling author or a blogger from Kansas, everyone has to edit their work. The first draft is always a mess of disorganized thoughts and uncertain tangents. Writing begins as chaos and ends with order. The Most Read Book Among High School Seniors From Each State, in One Surprising Map Native Americans living in the Northeast, like Game of Thrones fans, knew one thing at this time of year: Winter is coming. As such, now was the time for one last glut of food before a four-month-at-least period of traveling along with migrating prey in order to hunt for fresh food. In that sense, yes, Native American harvest feasts are a clear primogenitor to today's Thanksgiving. But the truth is more complex.

Teach English Writing: Videos Write Story Summaries Writing Skills: idea, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, organisation Short videos with interesting plots make great prompts for an ESL writing class. CLIL – how to do it “Chris, we’ve been asked to work with some schools to develop their CLIL courses. Can you look after that?” That was the first time I heard the term CLIL. How to Write a Fanfiction: 12 Steps Edit Article Four Parts:Exploring the Source MaterialPlanning Your Own StoryWriting Your MasterpieceGetting Your Work Out ThereQuestions and Answers Fanfiction refers to a type of fiction using the settings or characters of an existing work in tribute to it. If you're a big fan of a certain fictional universe, you may choose to write about some of its characters yourself, either expanding the official story or changing it altogether.

21 Actual Analogies Used By High School Students in English Essays. 1. When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment. 2. Her eyes twinkled, like the moustache of a man with a cold. How to give feedback on a text On Friday, you will get an essay from someone in another class. You are going to give feedback. To be able to do that, please watch the film. Then take a look at the phrases below the film. Those phrases can help you giving the feedback. 1.

Quick English Grammar Tip: "To" Versus "For" The English language can be complicated sometimes! Are you tired of making the same tiny (or major) grammar mistakes over and over again? Here is an example of a common grammar mistake that you might be making: Do you get confused about when to use "for" and when to use "to" in everyday English? If so, today's lesson is for you. I will explain when to use both of these and I will give you a bunch of useful examples so that you can stop making those pesky grammar mistakes!

Read Dating: A Fun Way to Motivate Struggling Readers “I hate reading.” No three words frustrate me more than these. What enrages me about this phrase is that it is a lie. Students love reading. Need more writing ideas for this year? Bookmark this blog series. Check out the six blog posts filled with teaching ideas and resources—written by teachers—in our Teaching Young Writers blog series. We partnered with WeAreTeachers to bring this quick-to-read, inspiring series to life. As you lesson plan and gather ideas for the year, you'll find • 5 peer conferencing strategies for revising and editing. • 10 grammar lessons to fix some mistakes that drive us crazy. • 25 anchor charts for teaching writing and more! Need more support with writing instruction?

English-Guide.org A great interactive resource! Read the story book about the missing ice cream. Then go through the exercises to learn about the structure of a story including the characters, the setting and the plot line for the events of the story. You can use your understanding of these elements with anything you read or watch. Humanising Language Teaching Magazine for teachers and teacher trainers Fatos Ugur Eskicirak, Turkey Fatos Ugur Eskicirak holds a BA in American Philology from Ankara University and an MA in Educational Administration from Bahcesehir University, the CEELT, the COTE & the DELTA from Bilkent University and currently pursues her PhD studies in ELT at Istanbul University. She also designs & implements professional development activities for ELT teachers and works as the Teaching and Training Operations Coordinator at Bahcesehir University English Preparatory School. E-mail: ugurfatos@yahoo.com Menu Introduction AnalysisLearner problemsTeachingConclusionReferences

The Drafts Your Novel Needs (and Why You Probably Won't Use a Single Word of Your First Draft!) - ProWritingAid Nobody writes their final novel on the first pass. I’m not given to making dogmatic statements, but that’s one I’m willing to bet my manuscript on. In fact, two of my favorite writing quotes refer to just that: I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shovelling sand into a box so that later I can build sandcastles. - Shannon Hale