Tag: 11 plus english
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Eleven plus Non-fiction Models offer a fast track to your child’s writing success.
Why models? It’s all very well people telling you to write a great persuasive letter or recount or description, but what does that really mean? How much do you write? How do you start? How do you end? What techniques and structure should you include? Children need to know what success looks like, so they…
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Eleven plus Non-fiction Models offer a fast track to your child’s writing success.
Why models? It’s all very well people telling you to write a great persuasive letter or recount or description, but what does that really mean? How much do you write? How do you start? How do you end? What techniques and structure should you include? Children need to know what success looks like, so they…
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New for You! 15 top-level non-fiction models to help your child be the best writer in the exam room
A year in the writing, informed by hundreds of hours of teaching, and already helping people win success in dozens of 11plus entrance exams, please may I introduce an absolute must-have for your book-shelf or digital library in 2025: In digital: In paperback from Amazon:
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Celebrate what they don’t know…
One highly effective and relaxing teaching and learning method you should use with your child is to high five them when a test shows they don’t know something. Let me explain. They sit a Maths paper and it shows they don’t know co-ordinates, or have forgotten how to do long division, or they come across…
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This book really improves your child’s 11plus creative writing
If you’re spending time helping your child’s eleven-plus creative writing reach the grade for secondary school entrance exams, make sure you make progress – i.e. something changes about the writing itself or the understanding of the techniques and ideas – in every session. This book helps you do just that. I wrote it for parents…
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What has 6 faces and is an amazing teacher?
Quick 11+ game of the day. Grab a dice, grab a targeted vocabulary list from the net, print it out, and BOOM, you have a game board. Write a sentence with each word you land on. Don’t know the meaning of the word? Excellent. Look it up and you’re both learning new words that can…
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Learn Out Loud – please read with your voice turned up!
Because the week is about fun, I thought – how can I show ‘em? Then some words raced into the room And yelled: “Just write a poem!” Mums and dads – they need fun too They might have grumpy faces Just speak in an unusual way And take them to fun places It might go…
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How do you keep a fool in suspense?
Join me tomorrow for a week of why a sense of humour will super-boost your child’s chances of exam success. Lee, Currently laughing in London, the Eve of Halloween
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It’s okay to feel lost
You’re teaching your child nearly every day and it is working. You are making a difference. You are helping them. This is hopefully about adventure, not pressure. Challenge, not problem. Sometimes, you will be lost. You must be lost. It’s required. The brilliant author Seth Godin says it marvellously that true learning requires ‘tension and…
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It’s okay to feel lost
You’re teaching your child nearly every day and it is working. You are making a difference. You are helping them. This is hopefully about adventure, not pressure. Challenge, not problem. Sometimes, you will be lost. You must be lost. It’s required. The brilliant author Seth Godin says it marvellously that true learning requires ‘tension and…