Using ‘Editor’ in Microsoft Word to improve essay writing.

I have been doing a few of the free MicrosoftEd courses and have learnt about some tools which I think could be really useful for pupils as they navigate through essay writing and could boost the quality of an essay if used as scaffolds for writing. First up is 'Editor'. You can activate Editor in...

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas – an online EAL vocabulary lesson (Year 7).

Year 7 read John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas this year and some of my EAL lessons focused on the novel in order to provide language for understanding and expression of context, characters and themes. I taught most of these lessons online this year, so there are often questions and varied tasks for...