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Lotus diagram templates for essay planning
Lotus diagram templates for essay planning
Three free essay-writing tools from ClassTools.net
Overview Essay-writing skills in history are crucially important to develop but notoriously difficult to measure in final exams. Although official mark [...]
How to use “Backward Essays” to cover lots of content at high speed
Overview When covering content-heavy programmes of study, time is always tight. Rather than delivering lengthy, in-depth lectures or getting students to [...]
Using “EyeSay!” to give visual feedback on student essays
Overview “EyeSay!” is a new tool I have coded at www.classtools.net to help students and teachers get a useful visualisation of essay style and [...]
Student Bookmark: vocabulary for essay writing
Overview In order to help students develop a wider range of vocabulary for their extended writing, I have produced the following bookmark which can be [...]
Online citation generator for student projects
Overview Most online citation generators need the students to do most of the hard work – and only look for books. So I coded this online citation [...]
Write a SCRIPT, not an ESSAY: Use film-making to engage students in the art of writing
10 creative approaches for developing essay-writing skills
10 creative approaches for developing essay-writing skills
Visual essay-writing: cartoons, sticky-notes and plenty of collaboration!
To develop analytical and essay-writing skills in a collaborative and engaging manner, start by gathering a series of photographs relating to the topic in [...]
Use a ‘Banned Word List’ to encourage deeper thinking
Overview As a history teacher there are certain words and phrases which make me wince when I see them being used by examination students. I therefore use [...]