Resources to ENCOURAGE WRITERS

Make your own mini book with my 6 part trick!

Make your own mini book with my 6 part trick!

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Competitions!

Competitions!

How to Host a School Writing Competition

If you host it, I’ll donate prizes!

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The Custard Effect

Want to help your students develop resilience?

This FREE workbook is full of activities and worksheets to use with your class in conjunction with The Custard Effect, to promote, kindness, empathy, conflict resolution and resilience.

Need a resource that defines genres, writing structures and literary devices, including what each is, why use it, how to use it (with templates and examples), when to use it and skill building activities and suggestions?

Then you need this book!!

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Recently, whilst having dinner with my family, I raised the question of metonymy or synecdoche. Usually enlivened by the opportunity to discover and use new words, these ones were met with blatant disinterest. And I get it! The argument is entirely academic, but as I thrive on the academics of English… I couldn’t help myself.

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