Kids Corner: Personification
Personification is when you give an object, thing, or animal the qualities of a human. So basically, every Disney film ever personifies animals.
Kids Corner: How do I concentrate when I write? ADHD
Help Lana, I’m a creative energy explosion and sticking to one topic is almost impossible for me! Well first of all congratulations on having the energy of 1000 kids. I wish I did! I have the energy of half a kid.
Kids Corner: How to enjoy reading old English books
You are sitting in your English lesson and you hear the words “This book was written in…” and you pray it’s in the last 20 years right? Can this book please be in COLOUR?!
Kids Corner: Stressed about Tests - a Guide to Managing Exam Anxiety.
Are you stressed out about in class tests, exams, and quizzes? Don’t worry that’s pretty normal. The pressure is on, you are being timed, and suddenly you can’t remember anything.
Kids Corner: Communicate with your English teacher
First of all, let’s just say if your English teacher is eating people you might want to tell someone. Cannibalism is not OK. Sit at the back of the class and try not to look delicious.
Kids Corner KS2 : Using Similes to add flavour to descriptions
What is a simile? Basically it is when you compare something to something else (it comes from the word “similar”). Here is an example: “The dog puked like someone squeezing a tube of toothpaste”.
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: KS3 - Prose Pirate or Professional Proof-reader?
Welcome to years 7, 8 and 9 of Secondary School English in the UK. This is Keystage 3 chaps and chapettes, and this means we need to up our game! How you say? Stop being a Prose Pirate, and learn to proofread our work so we edit out all those little mistakes before we submit our work. This will make you a professional proof-reader.
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.
Kids Corner 01: Shakespear as a second language
So you go to an English school and English is not your first language. At some point you will be learning Shakespeare. Nightmare right? You aren’t just learning modern English, now you have to learn Elizabethan English too? Who thought that was a good idea?!