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Kids Corner: Prepare your kids for the 11+ Grammar School exam.
You know if you have a tiny genius walking around in your house. If your smart kid is still at junior school, you should think about helping your little genius prepare for the 11+ exam.
Kids Corner: Collective nouns are funny
So that is a “walk” of snails. It turns out that groups of animals have names. You might have heard of a pride of lions or a pack of dogs. Some of these names can be pretty funny.
Kids Corner: Fun ways to learn to read
Let’s face it, learning to read can be really boring and really difficult. I know a way you can learn that is a lot of fun!
Kids Corner: Writing for an audience
So, you are a smart kid. You can probably write stories already. You may have written many stories. Do you ever think about who you are writing for though? Who is your audience? What would they want?
Kids Corner: I will teach with puppets!
Yes, puppets! So far, I have taught lessons with Rambo the badger and Gordon the gofer but I assure there are more puppets waiting and ready if needed.
Kids Corner: Funny Poems for Kids
“Oh flowery fluffy love muffin, how doth thy……” *SNORE*. Don’t worry I find that kind of poetry really boring too. But I have good news!
Kids Corner: Intensity in adjectives
Ok kids, I need to know, how fat is your sandwich? You can say, slightly fat, pretty fat, very fat and extremely fat. That’s a bit basic though isn’t it? Let’s think about the intensity (strength) of our adjectives (describing words).
Saturday Supplement: Answers to your Questions
You lovely people ask me questions sometimes (which I love!) and sometimes you ask me the same questions. So, I thought, ‘why not give everyone the answers?’ So, I did. Simple as that. I’m so smart.
Kids Corner - How I teach Sight Reading
Young people, and people of all ages with dyslexia find it difficult to sight read, and it can take a long time to learn in traditional ways.
Kids Corner: A Game of Telephone for creative writing
What’s a game of Telephone? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Telephone is like the game “Chinese Whispers”.
Kids Corner: Exams, what to do in those “Oh Fluff” Moments
So, you get into your in-class test or your final exam, everything is going well, and then your mind goes blank. This is your “Oh Fluff” moment.
Vocabulary Showcase: “love”
Maybe you are all loved out already, but let’s have a look at some other ways of saying love in English
Sunday Funday: Happy Valentine’s day
Saturday Supplement: 150 Instagram followers!
I started the Wright English Instagram, learn_english_the_wright_way, in September 2020, and I’m so happy to see that it has reached 150 followers already.
Kids Corner: Free English learning games
Adults want kids to superglue their faces to textbooks and become prize winning students in two weeks. Kids just want to have fun! Can we satisfy everyone? Well yes, almost!
Kids Corner: Free Practice 19th Century book online
Part of your exam might be reading a bit of 19th century English that you have never seen before. How do you prepare for that? Well, you get reading as much 19th century English as you can before you get to that exam.
Kids Corner: Hangman to teach English literacy
Are you trying to help someone improve their spelling or writing? For beginners this can be a very challenging process. For children with learning disabilities, it can be stressful and embarrassing. So why not make a game of it?
Kids Corner: Sock Lobsters - Literature for Children
Introduce your children to the fun of excellent English stories for kids at a young age.
Kids Corner: Understand your Author (GCSE)
If you want to give yourself a head start in your G.C.S.E English literature classes (or mixed English classes) I have a very useful tip for you: Understand your author!
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.