How Do You Help Students Or Children Prepare For Essay Writing Tests?
I’ve taught students both how to write the essays for their school tests and been a test grader for the companies that score them. Learning to score the tests opened my eyes to how to help students learn to write them. Here are some tips so that you can as well. The biggest problem students have is worrying about what to say. The secret that students don’t realize is that what you say doesn’t matter, so long as it makes sense. Help them stop spending so much time deciding what to say when concentrating on saying something-anything-properly is what’s most important. The test is scored on the way you say things, not on what you say. Decide on what to say quickly and spend the majority of the time working out how to say it. The writing prompt will suggest something and offer a few suggestions about how to approach the topic. Grab onto the first idea you have and start developing the points you need to elaborate on that idea. Decide what the overall, final point will be and choose ideas th
