14 free writing resources for Year 12, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Good writing is planned writing. Every prompt here includes a short planning section, then a writing task with success criteria that match what teachers look for in narrative, persuasive and informative texts.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
A senior persuasive writing worksheet on the three classical appeals. Students identify ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion) and logos…
A senior narrative writing worksheet on dialogue that reveals more than it states. Students study an original model scene in which a…
Students learn how senior writers control tone and voice to persuade. They identify tones such as measured, urgent, indignant, wry and…
A senior writing worksheet on the reflective statement (sometimes called a writer's statement or statement of intention) that often…
An unseen poetry worksheet built around 'Float', an original Petrarchan sonnet in which a speaker watches their mother learn to swim at…
A drama study worksheet built around an original one-act play scene in which a sister hides from her brother that she has sold their late…
Students plan a comparative response on two short original texts that explore inheritance: a prose extract about a parent's worried…
A senior text analysis worksheet on writing a rhetorical analysis of a speech. Using an original speech given by a retiring nurse at the…
Students analyse how an original feature article, 'In Praise of the Empty Afternoon', uses tone, structure, persuasive techniques and…
Clear explanations, examples and tips.
Senior English asks students to write persuasively (to argue a position) and discursively (to explore an idea from several angles). This…
A step-by-step guide to the senior English analytical essay: turning a question into an arguable thesis, structuring an introduction, body…
A guide to the craft decisions that senior English markers reward in imaginative writing: a distinctive narrative voice, a deliberate…
A reference table of more than twenty language techniques, each with a definition, an original example and the effect you can write about,…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
An imaginative writing task built on an original stimulus: a rain-soaked bus shelter at night with an abandoned birthday cake, described…
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.
