By now, most of your children’s examinations will be over. As your children begin having their papers returned and their grades known, it is inevitable that some will be overjoyed to see their effort pay off while some will be dismayed with the results received. This applies to not just the children but I am …
In the previous post, we mentioned passion and the need for it to help you be motivated. Do you know that passion is 50% of another important quality that we are going to talk about today? What is this important quality to help you succeed in achieving your goals? J.K. Rowling. Vincent Van Gogh. …
What did you do over the first weekend of 2019? We started the year with a bang by having Ms Nora participate in the PSLE Weekend 2019 organised by OpenSchoolbag. During the event, Ms Nora presented to an enthusiastic audience of parents and students the topic of “How to Tackle 3 Important Question Types in …
Hi, everyone! I am Ms Cynthia and it is a pleasure for me to share with you my post on visual text comprehension today. As English language learners, we read and analyse how words are used in texts and derive meaning from them. However, the analysis of words alone is not enough. Many times there …
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“Matthew spreaded the butter onto his bread.” “Jasmine shooked with fear.” “I’m going to go lay down for a while.” What do these sentences have in common? If you answered that these sentences are using irregular verbs wrongly, you are correct! In fact, these are some of the sentences that I often read when marking …
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the blog! You and I are going to talk about the use of personal pronouns today. Wait, should it be “I and you” or “You and me”? Do you know the answer? Now, it is common for us to make such mistakes because the use of the conjunction “and” often …
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Hi everyone! I hear that you have been learning some pretty interesting stuff here at Lil’ But Mighty! I know that you are excited to learn more and there is no time to waste! You must learn to write the right things so that you can excel! Hey wait a minute, take a look at …
Often, when I mark compositions, I come across lines of dialogue that sound like this. “Yay! Yippee!” “Hurry up!” “Oh no! I am late!” “How are you?” “I am at the bakery!” Are these good lines of dialogue? Although people talk like this in real life, all of these lines of dialogue make for boring …
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Isn’t it fast how we are nearing the end of the first term of the academic year? With the examinations looming, I think a lot of children (especially those in their transition years) are feeling apprehensive. And it is completely normal to feel this way. After all, fear is a common response to new …
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the blog! Today we will be looking at 3 ways to craft effective flashbacks. Flashback is a technique that reveals important information about what has happened in the past and it is commonly used in narrative writing. Let’s find out how you can improve on your flashbacks to make it …
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“Grammar? PSLE is still far away! My ah boy (girl) is only nine years old!” Indeed, PSLE may be a small event in the horizons for now but by the time your child has to sit for it, it may be an extremely stressful affair to brush up his literacy skills within a few months. …
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Let’s see if Ms Xie passes the empathy test! Putting yourself in another’s shoes. Have you ever heard of this phrase? Having empathy for someone is like that. Empathy is experiencing and understanding another person’s point of view as well as his or her thoughts and feelings about a certain situation. It is …
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