Geez I miss a day, & thus this!
Max, you sneaky fella (um, mate, chap, etc?): so consumed, I might
say, by curiosity to discover all this!
Grateful I dont have to, nor will I try....
Doug
On 9-May-09, at 3:34 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>
> Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> http://www.jaapblonk.com/Organ/blonkorgan.html
>> I didn't know about this till yesterday: hours of fun can be had.
>
> making the expressive face honk is fun.
> Behind it lurk many online links, eg to
> 'adult education', a commercial variety, which offers
> creative writing...
>
> And -
>
> another website, trialtest, which helps your kid get into feepaying
> aussie
> schools, even via creative writing, which it seems is now being
> universally
> tested in twenty minutes flat...thus:
>
> Creative writing is an essential and very important component for
> success not only in various exams but also in life. The selective
> school exam
> includes a 20 min creative writing test. Creative Writing Prep™ is a
> specially
> designed program tailored to enhance and improve your child's
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> writing tasks
> but can also submit his/her work for assessment and feedback by
> experts.
>
> Creative Writing Prep™ is a comprehensive program which covers
> writing tasks of
> the following types:
>
> Recount
> Procedure
> Poetry
> Narrative
> Literary Response
> Information Report
> Explanation
> Discussion
> Factual Description
> Exposition
>
> Our Assessment Rubrics are built to assess your child's writing with
> Curriculum
> Assessment Outcomes: WS3.9, WS3.10 and WS3.11 in focus.
>
> Every writing task submitted for evaluation by your child is
> measured and
> carefully assessed against a set of criterion through a Rubric or a
> Matrix. This
> Matrix with your child's score for each individual criterion is e-
> mailed to you
> after assessment of each writing task submitted. Also included in
> the email
> report are the teacher's comments. The feedback which your child
> receives will
> further improve his/her writing significantly.
>
> You can view the Summary Rubric online in the overall report for
> your child
> along with the teacher's comments.
>
> Owing to the nature of this test, only 1 test is allowed per week.
> This ensures
> quality feedback as well as gives sufficient time to the child to
> review and
> build up on his/her efforts for the next writing task.
>
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>
>
>
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Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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