700 prompts matching "Proofreading Practice: checking that your meaning is clear (Y5)"
Building strong similes about the weather
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me practise building vivid similes about different
Building strong metaphors about feelings
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me practise building strong metaphors to describe
Understatement: saying less to mean more
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me what understatement means with examples, and c
Five senses vocabulary bank builder
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me build a bank of descriptive words for each of t
Strong verbs instead of 'went' and 'got'
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me a bank of stronger, more precise verbs to use
Expanding a sentence with powerful adjectives
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Help me practise expanding a plain sentence by adding p
Idiom or literal? spotting the difference
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to tell whether a phrase is being used as
Scanning skill: finding an answer fast
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to scan a passage quickly to find a specif
Using quotation marks to prove my answer
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to lift a short quotation from a text as e
PEE method: point, evidence, explain
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me the Point, Evidence, Explain method for answer
Reading the question before the passage
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me why reading the question first can help me rea
Inference questions: reading between the lines
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Fronted adverbials to open a sentence
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Using pronouns to avoid repeating a noun
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how to use pronouns correctly to avoid repeati
Repetition as a deliberate cohesive device
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me how writers sometimes repeat words on purpose
Using synonyms to avoid repeating the same word
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Spacing my words evenly on the page
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me why even spacing between words matters for nea
Keeping my letters sitting on the line
Act as my Primary 6 English tutor. Teach me tips for keeping my letters sitting neatly on
Presenting a title and heading neatly
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Margins and indenting new paragraphs neatly
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