Here are a few reading articles to help our Year 11s and 12s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
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Term break writing activities for middle high school students
Here are a few activities to help our Year 9s and 10s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
Term break writing activities for Junior high students
Here are a few activities to help our Year 7s and 8s to keep up their English skills over the term break:
Crafting and Creating Texts – an intro
The new VCE study design is upon us and we now have the 'Crafting Texts' (or Creating Texts in Year 12) Area of Study. Here's a quick explainer of what teachers are looking for and what students are expected to do!
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NEW VCE English/EAL study design: ‘Personal Response’
For Year 11s this year, there is now a new area of study in the VCE study design for English/EAL: the personal response! This is a totally new area of study for VCE English/EAL, and everyone is asking questions about it!
Expand your teen’s vocabulary
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!
How to improve your teen’s argument analysis
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 prompts for the most popular text response texts
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...
Sentence starters for the comparative essay
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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