The model essays in Wake Comprehension.Essay.Ap are there to be read and studied, not printed, saved or copied. Your own writing prints perfectly well — so do your report and your record book.
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Age only sets the paper this pupil is offered first — wider lines for a younger hand, narrower for an older one. Every page size and every kind of ruling is open to everybody, and a grown-up can change it at any time.
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Eight steps: topic, words, plan, punctuation, write it, send it, get it marked, write the mark down.
Nothing started yet.
Three finished essays for every topic, from all over the world. Read one, then answer questions on it.
Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, mixed — and the seven Learn English drills.
No words gathered yet.
Say what you mean in a few words, and the app finds the closest word it knows.
Six things every good writer of English knows. Each one has a drill that goes into your record book.
No marks written down yet.
Looking for a pen…
Each one is bought on its own.
Wake NumAp — knowing numbers Wake Eng.Read.Write.Ap — first reading and writingEverything you have started. Tap one to carry on where you left off. It is all kept on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.
Finished essays, written the way an examiner hopes to see them. Three for every topic, each one built from different words, and each one set somewhere different in the world.
Read one, then answer the comprehension questions on it. They are here to be read and studied — they cannot be copied, saved or printed, and your name sits across every one of them.
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The same topic, answered three times over by three different writers. Read all three and you will see something no single essay can show you: there is no one right answer, only words chosen well or chosen badly.
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A different set for each of the three. That is the whole lesson: the words you choose are the essay.
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Every round is twelve questions and is marked as you go. Your score goes straight into your record book — the app writes it there itself, so it is always the truth.
First, what kind of writing is this? It changes the questions that will help you plan, so it matters more than it looks.
Tap one of these, or write your own underneath.
Describing something
Nothing done yet.
You chose to see your plan as an essay and drill on it rather than write it today. That is a real piece of work and every drill score goes in your record book. Steps 5, 6 and 7 are waiting for you, not shut against you.
You have an essay built from your own plan. Read it again whenever you are stuck — it is not the essay you are going to hand in, it is the shape your notes already have.
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The app has chosen these for you: the words this particular topic needs, with the joining words every essay needs on top of them. Read each one and read its sentence. You will practise them in step 4, and they go into your own word book for good.
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If these feel too hard, ask again — each time you do, the set comes back a little easier. Nothing you have already practised is lost.
Any word you want to use in this essay, on top of the ones chosen for you. The meaning is optional, but writing it out is half of learning it — and a word with no meaning cannot come round in your drills. The app will never ask you to spell a word of your own that it does not know, because it cannot check the spelling.
Saves the words for this essay, with their meanings, as a plain file you can keep, print or send. Your whole word book — every word from every essay — is under “My word book” on the home screen.
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Answer the questions below in your own words. Short answers are fine — one line each. When you are done, press the button and your answers become your plan, one paragraph for each.
A question that does not suit your topic? Press Change this question under it and ask your own instead.
One paragraph for each line, in this order. Move them about until the order is right — that is what planning is.
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Both of them are proper work and both go into your record book. Pick the one that is true today — you can change your mind whenever you like, and nothing you have done is thrown away either way.
Every sentence that says anything is your own answer from the plan. What the app adds is the joining — an opening line for each paragraph, in the right order for this kind of writing, carrying the words that hold one paragraph to the next. The app does not think of anything for you and does not know your topic. Nothing is sent anywhere; this works with the internet off.
So it is a scaffold, not a finished piece by a writer. Read it to see the shape your own notes already have — then write yours better than it.
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Every sentence with anything in it is one you wrote in step 3. Read it the way you would read one of the model essays: slowly, twice, noticing how one paragraph reaches the next. Then write your own, in your own hand, and make it better than this.
These are what hold one paragraph to the next. They are the cheapest thing you can add to your own writing, and the first thing a marker notices.
The app will not push a word into a sentence where it does not belong. These are yours to place when you write it yourself — that is a job for a person.
The comprehension drill asks questions written by a person about a piece they have read, so it belongs to the model essays — there are three for every topic, including this one. Read one of those and the comprehension drill opens. The drills below are on your own words: vocabulary, spelling and grammar.
No words yet.
Every word you have taken, from every essay you have written. It grows one topic at a time and it is yours. Nothing here leaves this device.
A word you met in a book, a lesson or a conversation. Write what it means in your own words — that is half of learning it. The app cannot check the spelling of a word it does not know, so it will ask you what your own words mean but never ask you to spell them.
Newest first.
Say what you mean in a few words. The app looks through the words it knows and gives you the closest.
It does not understand what you type, and nothing you type leaves this device. It compares your words with the meanings of the 400 words it knows, and with words that mean nearly the same, then shows you the closest. You are the judge of whether a word fits: read its meaning and its sentence before you use it.
Put a word in your word book and it will come round in your vocabulary and spelling drills until you know it.
Twelve questions, marked as you go, with the reason after every answer. The score goes into your record book.
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Six things, and nothing else. Read them, then practise the words you gathered. Marks in an examination are lost here more often than anywhere else in a composition, and they are the easiest marks in the paper to keep.
You can come back to it whenever you like — it is always here at step 4.
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These came back wrong. They will come round more often until they stick — that is how a drill is supposed to work, not a mark against you.
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The words you drill are the words you are about to use. Ten minutes here is worth more to the essay than ten minutes staring at the paper — and a word you had to think about twice is a word you will spell right on the day.
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It is already saved on this device. That happens on its own, every few seconds while you write, and nothing is ever sent anywhere without you asking.
Nobody else can do this for you, and it is where most of the easy marks are. Read your piece through once for each line.
For typed work only. Hearing your own sentence out loud is how you find the full stop you left out — your ear catches what your eye walks past.
Send it to the person who is going to mark it. Whatever you choose here, the copy on this device stays exactly where it is.
This app cannot mark your writing, and it will not pretend to. Writing is marked by a person who can read what you meant by it.
Your teacher, an older brother or sister, a parent — anybody who can read and mark. Save it first, then send it by WhatsApp, send it by email, or print it and hand it over.
Ask a grown-up first. Any app like that sends your work off this phone to a company’s computers, and that company keeps a copy of what you wrote. This app never does that: everything you write here stays on this device.
We do not name any of those apps, because we cannot see what they do with a child’s writing.
Put the mark in your record book — honestly, whatever it was. A record you can trust is worth more than a record that flatters you.
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Put down what you actually scored, whatever it was. Nobody else sees this — it is here so that you can watch yourself getting better, and a record that flatters you cannot do that.
Nothing in it yet.
There are two kinds of mark in here, and they are never mixed up. Drill scores are put in by the app — an answer is right or wrong and a computer can say so, so those are automatic and you cannot change them. Essay marks you write in yourself, after a person has marked your writing. This app has never marked anybody's essay and never will.
No drills done yet.
Put down what you actually scored, whatever it was. A record that flatters you cannot show you getting better.
No essay marks written down yet.
Touch the white box below with each end of your pen in turn, then with a finger. This shows what your device says it felt. Nothing is saved.
Everything this pupil has written, newest first. It is kept on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.
Your handwriting stays exactly as you wrote it. Here you can also type the same piece out, choose a font, and print a tidy copy.
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How much writing has been done, and when.
Taller bars are longer pieces. Writing at length is the thing that grows the slowest, so this is the bar worth watching.
Handwriting improves with a real pen or stylus in the hand. A finger is welcome, but it cannot teach a pen grip.
Questions about a pupil's progress, billing or a problem with the app. A grown-up should send this.
Every pupil on this device.
Sorted so whoever needs attention first is at the top.
Missed by the most pupils — worth teaching to the whole group.
If a pupil practised on their own phone, ask a grown-up to send you their backup file from Settings, then bring it in here.
This app says two things out loud, and only two: the word in the spelling drill, and a typed piece read back at step 6 so the writer can hear where the full stops belong. These choices are saved the moment you change them.
All results live on this device only. Nothing is uploaded.
Clear the record wipes the writing record — the charts of when and how much was written — and keeps every piece of work, the pupil, and your subscription. Erase this pupil removes the child completely, their writing with them, and if the subscription was bought on this child it goes too.
A backup holds the writing itself, so it can be a large file. That is the point: it is the only copy there is.
Moving to a new phone, or bringing a pupil back after clearing your browser? Choose the backup file you saved earlier.
Backups are the only copy of a pupil's history. Save one at the end of each term and keep it somewhere safe, like your email.
You can buy or change a plan at any time — there is no need to wait for a free trial to run out. Whatever you choose starts on the day you pay.
Added to the home screen it opens like any other app — its own icon, no address to type, and it still works with no internet.
On an iPhone or iPad
Do this before a child starts, if you can. On an iPhone the home-screen copy keeps its own results, separate from Safari’s, so work already saved here will not appear in it. If there is work already: press Save a backup above, add the icon, open it, and choose that file under Restore from a backup. After that, use only the icon.
On an Android phone
Android shares the same results between Chrome and the icon, so nothing needs carrying across.
How to start, the eight steps, the model essays and the drills, how to read a report, and how to keep your work safe.
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