Kids Corner (KS3): How to discover your love of reading
One of your tasks for Key Stage 3 in English is to read independently. That means you need to peel your face off of Imposter or detach yourself from your bike for a few hours a week and stuff your head in a book.
Kids Corner: KS2 The Essay Burger
Organising an essay huh? Complicated isn’t it?! Even if you really know what you are talking about, somehow the information just seems more important than the structure right? I see what you mean but now it is time to become an essay master. It is time to be an essay burger slinger in the fast-food English lesson of life!
Kids Corner: Writing in the passive voice
So now at school you need to improve your writing for non-fiction. Fiction means written stories, non-fiction means written facts, or reference books. Dictionaries, textbooks, and books about real people like the Pope are non-fiction.
Kids Corner: How to start a story
Creative writing can be difficult, and the most difficult part is the start. We can’t start with “Once upon a time” anymore.