Diving BellAug 21, 20193 minTeacher blog: When it's good to say it's badOne of the problems is that students forget that they’re supposed to be forming a personal response to the texts. And that often begins with
Diving BellAug 17, 20194 minStudent blog: analysing the quoteAnalysis does NOT mean paraphrase it. You should say how the quote shows your point (so you’ve got to have one of those) not that it does.
Diving BellAug 15, 20191 minTeacher GrammarIt's the weak chink in most people's armour, if they were born after 1975. Can you spot a grammar error - and identify it?
Diving BellAug 12, 20193 minTeacher blog: A better way of markingThe Pattern of Mistakes (POMs) marking strategy identifies the most common mistakes and prioritizes the order of tackling them.