Here are 10 quotes for you, if you're studying Tessa Hadley's Bad Dreams and Other Stories for VCE English or VCE EAL! These quotes are from the first short story, 'An Abduction'...
Category: Essay Writing
TEEL Structure: Link
As mentioned in our last post, TEEL stands for: Topic Sentence, Evidence, Explain, Link. Link to where? The Link is the final section of TEEL, and it is often very hard for our students to get right! We give our students a few principles when it comes to link: The link connects the body paragraph… Continue reading TEEL Structure: Link
TEEL Structure: Explain
Very few students can answer this question: what do you explain in TEEL? Our favourite way to frame it for our students is to ask: How does the Evidence...
TEEL Structure: Evidence
Evidence is the part where students present their evidence to support their Topic Sentence! This section is where students draw from their understanding of the text and show off their knowledge. Evidence can include:
TEEL structure: Topic Sentence
TEEL: Topic Sentence! A Topic Sentence tells your teacher or examiner what your paragraph will be about, aka it tells them how they should judge and score your body paragraph. There are a few guidelines we give to our students here at TSE Tuition...
What is TEEL?
TEEL is the acronym many teachers use to teach students how to write an analytical body paragraph about a text. It stands for...
Essay prompts for the most popular text response texts
We know the best way to help our students prepare for the dreaded VCE English exam is to plan (and write) as many essays as possible, but what if you don't have enough prompts to give them? Well, you're in luck! Here are...
How to get your teen to do more analysis in their essays
If your student is stuck on 'summarising' or 'storytelling' in their essays, you know they must increase the amount and level of their analysis, but HOW do we do this?
Summarising vs Analysing
How can our teens avoid summarising, or that dreaded comment, 'storytelling!', in their essays? What's the difference between summarising and analysing?
TEEL – everything you need to know
TEEL! What is this acronym your teen is so frustrated about? This is the most common acronym teachers across Victoria use to teach their students...