Your child reads English sources on social studies and science, then argues their own position in English essays backed by what they read.
In grades 6–7, your child writes essays built on a claim and evidence. In grades 8–9, they compare several English sources to choose evidence and write analytical essays. The instructor corrects each essay, and your child rewrites it.
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Grade is only a guide. The assessment shows whether your child can explain an English text in their own words, write a main idea and its evidence in one paragraph, and compare sources with different viewpoints in writing.
Apart from the English essay lessons, your child practices the areas where their writing is weak.
Your child builds vocabulary with word-analogy questions (Analogies), studies paragraph structure in model essays (Writing Models), and fixes grammar errors within paragraphs.
Your child reads English texts on topics like history, economics, psychology, biology, chemistry, and environmental science, and uses them as evidence.
Your child reads news articles and research writing and learns to quote and credit sources (Reference & Citation).
Your child writes more in English outside regular classes and gets in-depth written corrections. We'll tell you in consultation whether it's running now.
| Step | G6–7 | G8–9 |
|---|---|---|
| Choose the question and sources | Sets the question the essay will answer and picks English sources with information to support the claim. | Picks several English sources on the same topic. |
| Choose evidence | Pulls out only the information that supports the claim. | Compares what each source argues and picks reliable evidence that fits the question. |
| Write a draft | Writes paragraphs in this order: claim, reason, evidence, example. | Settles on their own position from the comparison and writes an analytical essay. |
| Get written corrections and rewrite | Fixes the sentence errors and claim–evidence connections the instructor points out, then rewrites. | Keeps source material apart from their own ideas, cites sources, and rewrites following the corrections. |
We choose textbooks from CGP English, Cambridge Academic Writing Skills, Writer’s Choice, Daily Paragraph Editing, and Analogies materials to fit your child's level and goals.
Your child takes a quiz every class, an end-of-month assessment, and a quarterly achievement assessment. We send you the results regularly. See how parents get progress updates
Your child rewrites weak spots in the next class and moves on to harder English writing where they're strong.
Your child's finished English essays go into their own portfolio.
Criteria are set for each level and goal, drawing on IB assessment criteria and Oxford and Cambridge textbooks and teaching methods.
Tell us your child's grade, their school curriculum, and what they find hard about writing in English, and we'll choose a starting level together.
