6 free text analysis & essays resources for Year 10: 6 worksheets. Answers included.
Analysing texts, techniques and essay writing for senior English. Year 10 students solve more complex equations, work with linear graphs, meet Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry, and expand binomials.
Students will practise: identifying persuasive techniques in advertising; explaining the intended effect of a technique on an audience; identifying a target audience from textual evidence; writing an analytical paragraph about a persuasive text; identifying figurative language and sensory imagery; distinguishing tone from mood; explaining how word choice creates mood; analysing contrast in a literary text.
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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 analyse an original poem about a clock repairer who works patiently while the city rushes past outside. They examine imagery and…
Students analyse an original newspaper-style opinion column arguing against supermarket self-checkouts. They identify the writer's…
A short story analysis worksheet built around The Lighthouse Clock, an original story about a family waiting for news while a grandfather…
A visual literacy worksheet that teaches the language for discussing posters and advertisements without needing a printed image. Students…
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Analysing texts, techniques and essay writing for senior English. At Year 10, our resources focus on: identifying persuasive techniques in advertising; explaining the intended effect of a technique on an audience; identifying a target audience from textual evidence; writing an analytical paragraph about a persuasive text.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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