30 free writing resources. Text types, planning and writing craft. Typically taught from Foundation to Year 12.
A playful story prompt for early writers: a hat that lets you talk to animals. Children plan the who, where and what of their story with…
Children imagine the strangest pet they can think of and write a story about the day it causes trouble. The planning questions guide them…
A first information report. Children choose an animal they know well and write facts about what it looks like, where it lives and what it…
A NAPLAN-style persuasive prompt on a topic every Year 3 student has an opinion about. Students practise matching persuasive devices to…
A NAPLAN-style narrative prompt: a small door appears in the trunk of a tree. Students plan the orientation, complication and resolution,…
Students research and write a structured information report on an Australian animal using subheadings for classification, appearance,…
A mystery prompt: a handwritten note falls out of a library book, and it is addressed to you. Students plan a story with rising tension…
Teaches Year 4 students the four parts of a narrative (orientation, complication, series of events, resolution) and the show-don't-tell…
A step-by-step guide to planning and writing a persuasive text: taking a clear position, structuring an introduction, body paragraphs and…
A NAPLAN-style narrative prompt built around a single opening or closing line. Students plan a story with a clear complication and a…
A NAPLAN-style persuasive prompt on homework. Students identify persuasive techniques, plan a contention with three supported arguments…
Students write an explanation text that describes how a natural process or system works, such as the water cycle, how bees make honey or…
Explains how Year 6 students structure and write an information report: the classification statement, description paragraphs with…
Students write a character-driven story in which the main character must make a choice with no easy answer. The plan focuses on what the…
A NAPLAN-style persuasive prompt on phone bans in schools. Students analyse persuasive techniques, then plan a contention, three developed…
A NAPLAN-style narrative prompt: an old photograph found in a drawer raises a question that the story must answer. Students plan point of…
Students read an original print advertisement and identify the techniques it uses to position readers: emotive language, inclusive…
A NAPLAN-style persuasive prompt for Year 9 on the effects of social media on teenagers. Students analyse sophisticated persuasive…
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…
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,…
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…