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From the Desk of Felicity Alpert

1:    TITLES OF MATERIAL WRITTEN FOR

       IMPROVING READING AND WRITING SKILLS

TIPS FOR SUPERVISORS OR PARENTS

1.  Encouraging children to read and helping reluctant readers

2.  Activities to do with your child to encourage a love of reading

3.  How to keep a Book Journal

 

TIPS FOR STUDENTS

4.  Ways to speed up your reading (a speed reading exercise)

5.  How to keep a Book Journal

6.  Reading non-fiction - Scholarly Reading (how to read non-fiction)

7.  A Reading Survey Exercise (Helping you reflect on what you read and why you read)

8.  How to complete a Short Story or Book Review

 

ENRICHMENT PRACTICE TASKS

WIDE READING ASSIGNMENT TASKS:

9A. Written task - for students of Middle Year School level (Years 8 and 9)

9B.  Interview task - for students of Middle Year School level (Years 8 and 9)

9C.  Written Response to a Novel Study - for Senior level students (Years 11 and 12)

 

2:  SIMPLE WAYS TO UNDERSTAND

     THE DIFFERENT GENRES/ASPECTS OF ENGLISH STUDIES:

TIPS FOR STUDENTS:

10.  Story Writing:  (What you need to build a story)

11.  The Interview:  (Techniques for an Interview Task)

12.  Ten_steps_to_a_good_summary

13.  Writing a Paragraph

14.  Essay Writing (The fundamentals of Essay Technique: for Year 10 and above)

15   Essay Skeleton using a sample topic

16.  Report Writing (Understanding the Report Writing genre, for Years 10 -12)

17.  Feature Articles (Steps to writing a feature article and Checklist)

18.  Analyzing and Evaluating an Argument (Techniques of Argument for Years 10-12)  

19.  Speeches - Informative and Persuasive speeches (How to research and structure)

20.  News Story Writing (How News Stories are structured, Model for article writing)