HOW TO GET MORE MARKS FOR STUDENTS' ESSAYS?
To get more marks for descriptive essays, try out this lesson plan.
1. Give students a short descriptive paragraph. Ask them to replace the words 'nice' and 'beautiful' with other words. Some of them will struggle to find other descriptive phrases.
2. Introduce a list of descriptive phrases or elicit from the more proficient students.
Example:
exciting, breathtaking, marvellous, wonderful, amazing, fantastic....
Make sure students know how to use the words correctly. Provide students with the sentences if possible. Drill them. Repeat in the next lesson. Give them spelling tests.
For UPSR students, they need to know a few adjectives for their essay, especially for the information transfer and essay questions.
Teach them:
cheap, expensive, reasonable, affordable, etc
Teach them how to use linkers in their essays,
Besides that, Furthermore, Apart from that.....Moreover
Examiners look for these words to give merit. I drill my Form 3 students to use these words and by the time they reach Form 5, we only need to correct their grammar, but that is another warfare.
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