Text analysis

Understand various rhetorical devices in English with clear definitions and examples, enhancing your grasp on how they enrich conversations and texts.

Try using these sentence starters for rhetorical analysis essay writing with your high school students. These sentence frames are easy to use and help students to focus on the “how” and “why” rather than the what of rhetorical analysis. #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela #differentiationstrategies

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How do you teach literary analysis? By using strategies that scaffold the process. Try these engaging classroom-tested strategies from Room 213.

Critical analysis can be simple and straightforward! Critically analyse theories, studies and cases using my three-step process - describe, interpret and evaluate! Check out my website to grab your free critical analysis planner!

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Essay's have layers. This resource guides you to unearth the hidden layers of any essay using text analysis.

Literary Devices That Are Used in Fiction

While writing our literary analysis essays, I noticed my students struggled with introducing their textual evidence. They just kind of plopped it in without introducing it or setting up the context of the evidence. To fix this up, today when we revised our draft for transitions, I threw in some teaching about transitions to use to introduce textual evidence. It definitely helped! #middleschoolela #iteachmiddle

Use this page to help you understand the “tone” for any article or story that we read in class. If you understand the author’s tone, you will most likely understand the main idea …

Another brilliant example of guided reading and annotating of text. This time with Year 13 because I thought they needed a refresher in deep reading. #historyteacher #educhat #histchat

learning twice: The SIFT Method for Literature Analysis

Citing sources, using signal phrases to embed quotes

In this post, I break down how I approach teaching literary analysis writing to my students in an introductory children's literature course.

Informational text structures are the organizational patterns all writers must learn. Most people read and write for informational purposes, so...