Cause and effect analysis

We all know that analytic verbs are important in text response essays. We want students to analyse and discuss how an author, construction element or text as a whole demonstrates, highlights, reveals (and so on) meaning. While these types of verbs are important to teach, there is another set of equally important verbs in text…

Explainers

There are two reasons you might now consider teaching students how to write ‘explainers’ in junior English. Firstly, in the new VCE English study design, the craft of writing AOS includes ‘explain’ as one of the four purposes for which students can write. Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, explainers are a more and more common…