Where English marks quietly leak away.
English marks rarely collapse. They leak. A summary that runs over the word count, an essay with a strong idea and no structure, a literature answer that retells the plot instead of answering the question — each costs a few marks, and they add up across three papers.
First Additional Language learners have a second problem: they can often say what they mean but not write it in the register the paper wants. That is a fixable, teachable gap, and it responds well to being shown rather than told.
My summary is 92 words and the limit is 90 and I can’t cut anything.
You can, and where you cut matters for the mark. Read me your point three.
“The writer says that people should try to make an effort to recycle more often.”
Twelve words for one idea. “People should recycle more often” is five and keeps the point. Marks come from points, not padding.
What Grace covers in English.
CAPS-aligned, Grades 1–12. Tell Grace the grade and it works to that curriculum level.
Foundation and Intermediate Phase · Grades 1–6
Phonics and decoding, reading fluency, vocabulary, comprehension strategy, sentence construction, punctuation and early creative writing. Grace reads aloud, which is how younger learners use it.
Senior Phase · Grades 7–9
Comprehension, summary skills, parts of speech, tenses, active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, figurative language, and structured paragraph writing.
FET Paper 1 · Language in context
Comprehension, summary, visual literacy including advertisements and cartoons, and language structures and conventions.
FET Papers 2 and 3 · Literature and writing
Novel, drama, poetry and short stories with the set works your school prescribes; essays, transactional writing such as letters, reports, speeches and reviews, and the shorter forms.
English homework help, at the hour it is needed.
English homework is often open-ended, which is exactly what makes it hard to help with at the kitchen table. There is no answer at the back of the book.
Grace does not write the essay. It asks the questions a good teacher would ask — what is your line of argument, what does that paragraph prove, where is the evidence from the text — and lets your child do the writing.
- Reads a scanned poem, extract or worksheet and works from the real text
- Plans essays and transactional pieces without writing them for your child
- Explains grammar rules with examples rather than terminology alone
- Works with the set works your school actually prescribed
1–12
Home Language and First Additional Language
3
FET papers covered
24/7
Including the night before the essay
Related subjects and pages.
Everything on this site is one platform and one subscription — these are simply the other doors into it.
Questions about English tutoring.
Will it write my child’s essay?
No. It plans, questions and gives feedback on what your child has written. Submitting AI-written work is a school discipline issue and we will not help with it.
Does it cover the set works?
Yes. Tell Grace which novel, drama or poetry anthology the school prescribed and the work happens against that text.
Home Language or First Additional Language?
Both. They are different papers with different expectations, and Grace works to whichever your child is registered for.
Can it help with oral preparation?
It can help plan and structure a prepared speech or unprepared response, and it is voice enabled, so your child can practise out loud.