Teach English writing and critical thinking skills
You want your students to write clearly, think critically, and express real insight. But researching ideas, gathering materials, and building lessons from scratch takes time you don’t have.
That’s why this ebook exists.
The planning, scaffolding, and organization are already done—so you can focus on teaching and helping your students become more articulate, confident communicators.
What’s Inside
20 ready-to-teach lessons in two practical sections.
1. Learn to write
Inspired by the 6+1 Writing Traits, these lessons build core composition skills:
- Strengthen clarity and style with simple, effective strategies.
- Help students add detail using an easy information-gap technique.
- Spark creativity with multimedia prompts and structured support.
2. Write to learn
A hands-on introduction to academic thinking and analytical language:
- Encourage deeper thinking through lessons that explore meaningful questions.
- Teach argument writing with a clean, reliable sentence pattern.
- Guide students through inferences, analogies, correlations, causation, and data trends using real-world materials.
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Free sample
Want to preview the approach? Click here for a 14-page sample, including:
- The introduction and full table of contents
- One creative writing lesson
- One critical thinking lesson on analyzing analogies
Ebook specs
- Level: Intermediate+
- Publication date: February 27, 2017
- ISBN: 978-89-98531-05-8
- 20 lessons
- 122 pages
- PDF file (approx. 7 MB)
- Designed for both projection screens and printouts
- Includes lessons, worksheets, instructor notes, answer keys, picture prompts, and video links
- Formatted for A4 and compatible with 8.5×11 inch paper
Every activity targets a specific skill. No fluff, no fillers. Each lesson page includes estimated class time, key concepts, and required resources.
About the author
Rob Whyte is a Canadian writer and long-time English instructor based in South Korea. He teaches composition and conversation at the university level and occasionally offers courses in methodology, cross-cultural communication, and political science.
Rob also runs a small ebook publishing house specializing in classroom resources for ESL teachers. His travel and food writing has appeared in Lonely Planet.
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