SHOW ME, DON'T TELL ME

Alister came up and showed me a write-up by one of the students in his Friday class.   I read with some disbelief that a second language st...

I chanced upon this technique two years ago when I was surfing on the Internet to look for an effective way to help my students describe be...

Short descriptive paragraphs written by Form 5 students at SMK Muhibbah, Sandakan, Sabah. It was a series of 3-double period 'Show not ...

Showing sentences should use strong vivid verbs to help to energize the writing.  This was a revise and review lesson, focusing on verbs.  I...

Some students face problems of not having a convincing storyline to write.  One way is to read stories or the newspaper to come up with inte...

10 SENTENCE PATTERNS TO ADD VARIETY TO YOUR WRITING Quick reference for students to make your story captivating.

HOW TO MAKE WRITING INTERESTING? One way to make your narrative captivating is to vary your sentence structures.  If a whole essay is writ...