Are you watching your child struggle with Literature revision, second-guessing every essay, or feeling totally lost with Animal Farm? The frustration can be exhausting.
đ Maybe youâre overwhelmed trying to find MOE-aligned practice questions and model answers.
đ Maybe your child is frustrated, staring at a blank page with no clue how to start.
đ Maybe every test feels like a gambleâno matter how hard they work.
đ Or perhaps, you just want them to feel proud of their effort again.
At Literature Academy, we offer digital resources that help students actually understand how to write top-scoring responses.
With our practice questions aligned to the MOE curriculum, plus our carefully crafted model answers, your child wonât just be memorising chapter summaries of Animal Farm (which is truly pointless!) â but theyâll have clarity on how to answer some of the most FAQs in tests and exams, taking away the guesswork of studying for Literature!
As a parent of a Sec. 1 or 2 student struggling with English Literature, youâre not alone. You want to support your child, BUT IT'S SO HARD because....
Finding MOE-aligned practice questions, set text resources, or model essays is nearly impossible.
You cannot find any model essays or practice questions for your childâs set text. Even if you find something online, it's not designed for the MOE Singapore syllabus.
Your childâs school teachers provide minimal feedback or guidance in school. Your child feels unsupported and lost, leaving them lost and unsure of how to improve.
You have no idea how to help your child in English Literatureâit wasnât your strength when you were in school.
[All pdf resources are printable, and all video resources can be saved.]
Includes 6 Sets of Passage-Based Questions with suggested model essay answers đđ˝ that's 12 questions in total! Designed with top-most asked questions on topics such as character study, thematic study, mood and atmosphere, while providing clear demonstrations of how topic sentences are clearly structured to answer the question, quotes are well integrated into the paragraphs, and literary analysis is shown in the explanations of textual evidence.
Many students fall into the trap of narrationâsimply retelling the story instead of explaining the âwhyâ behind the text. This course includes my lesson video on my DICIts Method, where your child will learn how to expand their analysis using literary devices, pushing them above the class average. This method helps them say goodbye to vague, incomplete and shallow answers!
How can your child accurately explain themes on Manipulation, Power, Political Sophistry and more? Use this list of keywords to sharpen their essay analysis and strengthen their points with precise vocabulary. Say goodbye to repeating generic phrases and losing marks for a lack of precision and literary analysis!
What is your impression of Snowball or Boxer? How does Napoleon use power to control the animals? Character study questions are the #1 most commonly asked questions in Secondary 1 and 2. Discover a list of strong character qualities to describe key characters such as Squealer, or minor characters like Clover and Benjamin. With provided quotes and sample explanations, this will take the guesswork out of essay writing.
Give your child a powerful exam advantage with model answers of 10 Passage-based Questions, each of them addressing key focus areas tested in Lower Secondary e.g. characterisation, themes, etc.
Whether theyâre unsure about how to explain their evidence, or need help following the PEEL or PEAEAL Paragraph Writing format taught in school, these suggested answers will take away the guesswork of what deep literary analysis looks like.
How can you explain characters effectively (without lapsing into narration!) and how do you understand the full demands of commonly-asked questions?
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How is this passage made striking?
How are the pigs vividly portrayed?
What is the role of language in the novel?
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Hi! I'm Cheryl :)
When I first started teaching, I was thrown into the deep end. It was my very first year as a MOE teacher, and I was handed an O-Level graduating class just a few months before their final exams. Imagine the pressureânot just for them, but for me too.
I remember looking at my students, seeing their frustration, their doubt, their exhaustion. They had worked hard, yet they still struggled to understand how to improve in their essays. What does âVagueâ even mean? Why do some answers score high while othersâseemingly just as goodâfall flat?
I knew that if I wanted to help them turn things around in time, I needed to go beyond just teaching contentâI had to teach them how to think like an examiner.
As a Subject Head of Literature in a MOE School, I dedicated myself to cracking the code of Literature assessment. I studied marking rubrics, analysed examiner reports, and developed clear, step-by-step methods to help students meet the exact criteria that examiners were looking for.
Many students are often highly frustrated with Lit because they have little exposure and training to exam-oriented questions and skills, and it's usually worse at Lower Secondary because of the huge time constraints. My mission is to change that for your child!
No, this focuses on MOE test and exam-standard passage-based questions and model answers. Also provided are character study notes on key characters such as Napoleon, Boxer, Squealer, Snowball, Clover.
I did not endeavour to provide chapter summaries because it's not as helpful for students compared to targeted exam questions and answers. Memorising content of each chapter does not help students gain clarity of HOW to answer different types of questions, and it may lead them down the rabbit hole of narrating the plot, which is what pulls their scores down.
No, these resources (video and pdf) are for independent learning (great for ongoing revision!).
If your child is very keen on 'live' online classes, they can sign up for my online masterclasses. Please email me at cheryl@literature-academy.com to find out about the next online class. Note that these may not be offered regularly.
Students usually lack a breadth of exam-oriented resources for their revision, and your child may complain that "a certain topic was tested but not taught in class". This is common because schools don't have enough curriculum time to cover every question type in depth, so students are expected to apply the skills that they've learnt to passages they might not have fully analysed in class. It's also quite rare for a school to prepare model essays for English Literature.
My resources include suggested essay answers that help your child understand how to structure their paragraphs, and what literary analysis and strong explanations actually look like (not just bullet points!). Due to time constraints, school teachers usually lack time to focus on those aspects. Ironically, your child's key to scoring better in English Lit. is improving their skills in writing strong explanations with literary analysis.
This is my recommended roadmap which I touch on in my Welcome Instructions:
1. Print all provided pdfs. This includes important vocabulary lists (e.g. How to describe emotions, tone, characters) that they should use in their annotation, assignments, revision and exams.
2. Print and staple the 30-page notes, which includes model answers for 6 sets of passage-based questions, Character Study Notes etc.
3. Practise answering the first passage-based question.
4. Complete self-assessment by reading the Suggested Answers for their chosen practice questions and identify what's missing in their own answers.
5. If they find mindmaps helpful, create mindmaps using keywords and quotes in model answers.
6. Repeat the process for the other questions!