11 free text analysis & essays resources. Analysing texts, techniques and essay writing for senior English. Typically taught from Year 9 to Year 12.
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 read an original sixteen-line poem about a parent who works nights, then plan and write an analytical response on how the poet…
Students study a model analytical paragraph and learn what each part of the PEEL/TEEL structure does: a topic sentence that makes a claim,…
Students read two original texts on the theme of leaving home, a first-person prose extract and a short poem, and compare how each uses…
A step-by-step guide to the senior English analytical essay: turning a question into an arguable thesis, structuring an introduction, body…
A reference table of more than twenty language techniques, each with a definition, an original example and the effect you can write about,…
A guide to the comparative essay for senior English, in which two texts are put in conversation about an idea. Using two original…
The skills that separate a good English exam result from a very good one: reading the command term accurately, unpacking the question,…
A practical method for the unseen-text section of senior English exams: a five-step first-read routine, what to look for in prose, poetry,…
A structured workshop in which students plan an analytical essay from an original prompt on an original short text, 'High Water', about a…