Category: Writing

How I accidentally became a published writer in 1998 by authoring a book filled with blank pages

Mar 9, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in ESOL, Improving learner writing, TESOL, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing frame

Four score and seven years ago in 1998, I became a published author. It was an accident and I didn’t mean to. The published book was filled with (mostly) blank pages. That’s the cover up above. I found a copy yesterday because I have this banana box in my office that I’ve been trying to…
How do you write an essay? AKA The Pragmatist’s Guide to Essay Writing

Mar 8, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Essay, Essay writing, Improving learner writing, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing frame

How do you write an essay? Find out how to write better essays at university and college. Get better grades by writing better essays.
How to use macrons for words in Te Reo Māori in gmail on my Mac? 6 Easy Steps

Dec 5, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Learner success, Maori, Maori Literacy, Success, Uncategorized, Writing

How to use macrons for words in Te Reo Māori in gmail on my Mac. 6 easy steps you can follow. If you’re curious, a macron is a line above a vowel. This shows that it should be spoken as a long vowel sound. For example, as in Taupō.
BEFORE: More examples – Diagnostics for writing

May 9, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Teaching Adults to Write to communicate We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. If you need it, you can download it here. There are three ideas for diagnostic writing assessments that you can use or adapt to your trade or another training context. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy…
How Do I Improve my Writing Online? Use Grammarly

Feb 5, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, Essay writing, Graeme, Graeme Smith, Grammar, Improving learner writing, This Is Graeme, THISISGRAEME, Uncategorized, Write, Writing, Writing frame

Awhile ago, I wrote about how I was using Hemingway App to improve the quality of my writing. I don’t use it for everything, but still like to use it when I need to sit down and write something that is clear and concise. Recently, I signed up for another product. It’s similar but different……
Developing a Writing Frame For Report Writing

Sep 9, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Improve, Literacy, report, teaching, template, Writing, Writing frame

A while back I redeveloped the writing frame we use to teach people how to write their report for the first part of our course. If you want a better copy of this to print out, there is a PDF version you can download here. I contextualised the writing frame above to the content that we…
How Can I Improve My Writing? Use the Hemingway App

Aug 19, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How can you improve your writing? What are some great online tools you can use to improve your writing? Use the Hemingway App…!
How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…
Whakapapa is a “WH” Word and it’s the best one

Oct 26, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Whakapapa is a WH word. What is whakapapa?
Using the online vocab profiler – Part 5 (Sample you can download)

Aug 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Vocabulary, Writing

Here’s the last part… You can review how I put together my new vocabulary diagnostic via these links or just read through below and download the sample if you want to modify it. My outline is here. The initial results from the vocabulary profiling software are here. The way that I generated some useable word lists is…