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Vocabulary

Expand your teen’s vocabulary

November 24, 2022November 17, 2022 Shirlaine

In our experience, teens who struggle with expressing and expanding their ideas are often working with a less-than-ideal vocabulary. They lack the words to articulate the nuance, depth and breadth of their ideas, and so they write in clumsy, ineffective and inaccurate ways. But there is help!

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Argument analysis, VCE EAL, VCE English, Vocabulary

How to improve your teen’s argument analysis

November 3, 2022October 27, 2022 Shirlaine

Argument analysis has been part of the VCE English/EAL study design for many, many, MANY years, in one form or another. And it will continue to be a part of the new study design! So how can we help our teens lift improve their analysis?

Essay Writing, VCE English

Essay prompts for the most popular text response texts

October 13, 2022October 6, 2022 Shirlaine

We know the best way to help our students prepare for the dreaded VCE English exam is to plan (and write) as many essays as possible, but what if you don't have enough prompts to give them? Well, you're in luck! Here are...

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Comparative essay, VCE EAL, VCE English

Sentence starters for the comparative essay

September 15, 2022August 18, 2022 Shirlaine

Sentence starters (or stems) can be a great way to help give our teens the momentum they need to write those comparative sentences. Here are some for you to try with your teen! 

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Comparative essay, VCE EAL, VCE English, Vocabulary

Helpful vocabulary for the comparative essay

September 8, 2022August 18, 2022 Shirlaine

Here are some handy vocabulary for you to practice with your teen when writing those comparative essays!

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Comparative essay, VCE EAL, VCE English

Comparative essay structures: block or integrated?

September 1, 2022August 18, 2022 Shirlaine

If I had a penny every time students asked me which structure is better... When structuring a comparative essay, there are 2 main kinds of structures available to our teens: a Block approach or an Integrated approach.

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Comparative essay, VCE EAL, VCE English

VCE Comparative essay pairs – 2022 & 2023

August 25, 2022August 18, 2022 Shirlaine

Do you have a teen is studying Year 12 English in 2022 or 2023? Do you know what pairs of texts they're studying? The comparative essay is one of the more important pieces...

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Essay Writing

How to get your teen to do more analysis in their essays

August 11, 2022August 3, 2022 Shirlaine

If your student is stuck on 'summarising' or 'storytelling' in their essays, you know they must increase the amount and level of their analysis, but HOW do we do this?

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Essay Writing

Summarising vs Analysing

August 4, 2022July 30, 2022 Shirlaine

How can our teens avoid summarising, or that dreaded comment, 'storytelling!', in their essays? What's the difference between summarising and analysing?

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Essay Writing, VCE English

TEEL – everything you need to know

July 28, 2022July 16, 2022 Shirlaine

TEEL! What is this acronym your teen is so frustrated about? This is the most common acronym teachers across Victoria use to teach their students...

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