Identifying Language Features


Students can identify language features by physically annotating the text; however, they can also save documents as PDFs and annotate on screen. This activity makes a good homework. Please see the example below, created using the ‘comment’ tools on the right side of the page.


Selecting Evidence


Sometimes students will choose evidence (a quote from the text) that is simply not very effective. Then, they reach the ‘explore’ part of their paragraph and they struggle with how to comment on their quote. The following activities support students in identifying the really engaging and effective words or phrases in a text.


Charting a text’s effectiveness


In this activity, students read a text in pairs (or perhaps as a whole class) and then students chart how effective each paragraph is. The class share where the peaks came and why that was so. Some differences could be explored – this demonstrates how texts can be read in different ways. Then, when they try an example question on the text, they can refer back to those paragraphs for their evidence.


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