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Hi! My name is Lizzie Grace, and I teach English and literacy classes from my home in Auckland, New Zealand. I have a bachelor's degree in English and Education, and a Masters of Education.

My mission is to help students read carefully, write clearly, and think deeply. I believe that these are some of the most important skills for doing great work and making the world a better place.

My most popular classes focus on building writing skills using a systematic, step-by-step method that demystifies writing great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Students can try out parts of this method through my one-time classes, "Sparkling Sentences for Excellent Essays" and "Powerful Paragraphs for Excellent Essays," or they can work through the whole writing process in my eight-week course, "Argumentative Writing Step-By-Step."

I also offer writing-intensive literature classes. In these classes, we use writing and discussion to deepen our knowledge of the text and push us to think about the text in different ways. Students leave my literature classes not only with a strong understanding of the text, but with background knowledge that will serve them well in their future reading, and the ability to see connections between books and the world around them, as well as stronger writing skills.

Finally, I also offer one-on-one tutoring for middle and high school students. In these private sessions, I tailor our work to suit each student's individual strengths, weaknesses, and interests, so that every student can become a confident reader, writer, and thinker.