Tag Archives: Academic skills
Paraphrasing activities & resources
Practising paraphrasing is so important for our students: it requires them to know vocabulary and to manipulate structures successfully. Doing it in pairs or groups means they have to be explicit about the process, further advancing their confidence and control. If you can name it, you can tame it! It is of course a skill […]
Summarising skills break-down
Slowing it down to break it down: how my IGCSE class improved their summarising skills. My Y11 IGCSE* group recently did their mock exams. They did pretty well in all the tasks except one. All bar one had completely forgotten how to write a summary. One had not even attempted it, one had written a letter, […]
A Hive of Activities 