8 free english resources for Year 9, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
English develops reading, writing, spelling and grammar together. Strong readers write better, and students who understand sentence structure read with more understanding. Our English resources separate those strands so you can target the one that needs work, while reading passages, writing prompts and grammar activities all reinforce one another.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students work with fifteen high-frequency academic words drawn from the Academic Word List, the words that appear across textbooks, exam…
Students read an original print advertisement and identify the techniques it uses to position readers: emotive language, inclusive…
Students read an original prose extract and examine how imagery, figurative language, sensory detail and word choice build mood, and how…
Students move beyond correctness to using punctuation deliberately. They learn how a colon sets up an explanation or list, how a dash (or…
Students learn to control rhythm and flow at paragraph level: varying sentence length and type (simple, compound, complex), opening…
A passage with questions.
An opinion column arguing that Australia should lower the voting age to sixteen. Students identify the writer's contention and supporting…
An explanatory text that moves from the stages of the water cycle to why Australia's rainfall is so variable, covering evaporation, El…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
A NAPLAN-style persuasive prompt for Year 9 on the effects of social media on teenagers. Students analyse sophisticated persuasive…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
Resources tagged NAPLAN practise the same text types and skills NAPLAN assesses. They are NAPLAN-style and not official test papers.