Analytical Planning BUNDLE | Years 5-9 | Editable Planning Sheet, Exemplar & SC

Make analytical writing easier to teach – and easier for students to master – with this ready-to-use planning pack. Designed to support visible learning and assessment literacy, this resource gives students a clear framework for building strong analytical responses while saving teachers valuable preparation time.

What’s Included:

• Editable Planning Sheet – scaffolded prompts guide students through unpacking a text, structuring ideas, and embedding evidence.
• Editable Success Criteria Cards – checkpoints that can be tailored to your classroom language to help students self-monitor and peer-assess effectively.
• Planning Sheet Exemplar – a model planning sheet that demonstrates expectations in action and helps students see what success looks like.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Supports differentiation – easily adapt the success criteria card and scaffold levels to meet diverse learner needs.
• Promotes independence – students can use the planning sheet and criteria as a roadmap during drafting and revision.
• Builds confidence – the exemplar provides a concrete reference point, breaking down abstract skills into achievable steps.
• Editable and reusable – customise the templates for any text, assessment task, or year level.

Curriculum Alignment (Years 5–9):
This resource directly supports the Australian Curriculum: English (Version 9.0) content descriptions, including:

• Year 5: AC9E5LA03, AC9E5LE02 – examining how events, characters and settings are represented in texts.
• Year 6: AC9E6LA03, AC9E6LE02 – analysing how language and structure influence meaning and audience.
• Year 7: AC9E7LA03, AC9E7LE02 – explaining how text structures and language features achieve particular purposes and effects.
• Year 8: AC9E8LA03, AC9E8LE02 – analysing and evaluating how authors combine language and visual features for impact.
• Year 9: AC9E9LA03, AC9E9LE02 – creating sustained and cohesive analytical texts that develop and substantiate arguments with evidence.

Perfect for upper primary and high school English classrooms, this pack is ideal for introducing analytical writing, supporting revision lessons, or strengthening student drafts before final submission.