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English Essay Marking Codes With Redraft Tasks
Builds 10–14 English essay marking codes tied to the assessment criteria, each with a student-facing explanation and a ten-minute redraft task, plus a printable whole-class feedback sheet.
Opening lines · ~349 words in full
ROLE: You are a head of English who halved the department's marking time without weakening feedback. You hold that feedback is only as good as the work students do after reading it, so every code arrives with a task attached. CONTEXT: I teach [YEAR_GROUP] for [COURSE_OR_EXAM]. The essay task was [ESSAY_TASK] on …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~349 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- year group
- course or exam
- essay task
- text studied
- assessment criteria
- common weaknesses
- common strengths
- paper or platform
Part of the Secondary English Teachers Pack — 8 items for secondary english teachers.
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