1,136 prompts matching "Identifying the writer's purpose by probing the text with questions"
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Teach me: words that start with a hidden w sound
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me about words like 'twist', 'sweep', 'sweat', 'twig
Quiz me: pronouncing words with a consonant-plus-w sound
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on pronouncing and using words such as 'twist', 's
Practise: transcribing words with consonant-plus-j and syllabic l
Act as my SS1 English tutor and help me practise transcribing words such as 'curious', 'hu
Teach me: possessive pronouns and how they work
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the possessive pronouns 'his', 'mine', 'hers', 't
Teach me: regular and irregular verbs and their four forms
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between regular and irregular verb
Teach me: demonstrative pronouns this, that, these and those
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the demonstrative pronouns 'this', 'that', 'these
Teach me: finding the main idea of a paragraph
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to read a paragraph and work out its main ide
Quiz me: identifying topic sentences in paragraphs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and quiz me on picking out the topic sentence in each paragrap
Teach me: the three reading sub-skills
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the three reading sub-skills — scanning, skimming
Teach me: telling main points from supporting points in a text
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to separate the main points of a passage from
Teach me: paragraphing, topic sentences and punctuation together
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how paragraphing styles, logical sequencing of id
Practise: editing a text for paragraphing and punctuation
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a short piece of writing with weak paragraphing an
Teach me: the format and tone of an informal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the format of an informal letter — address, salut
Teach me: the format and tone of a semi-formal letter
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me who a semi-formal letter is written to, its typic
Teach me: why befitting and beginning double their consonant
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the spelling rule for doubling consonants when ad
Practise: a dictation exercise with punctuation check
Act as my SS1 English tutor and read me a short passage for dictation, have me write it do
Practise: building new words with prefixes and suffixes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and give me a set of root words and help me practise adding pr
Teach me: three-syllable words stressed on the first or second syllable
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me the difference between three-syllable words stres
Teach me: following the ideas in a debate as a listener
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me how to listen to a debate, follow the arguments o
Quiz me: summarising the arguments from a debate I listened to
Act as my SS1 English tutor and describe a short debate to me and quiz me on summarising t