Practise TEEEC as a set of paragraph tasks: Topic, Extending, Example/Evidence, Explaining and Concluding. This version uses drag-and-drop labelling.
Learning Intention
To construct a sustained analytical paragraph on Robert Gray by completing each TEEEC task clearly and deliberately.
Success Criteria
I can identify TEEEC paragraph tasks in an exemplar response.
I can write a topic sentence that introduces the poem, key idea and argument.
I can extend the topic by adding context, nuance or a clearer focus before introducing evidence.
I can use evidence that directly supports the idea already introduced.
I can explain how the effect of the technique relates to the key idea.
I can conclude by linking the paragraph back to the question or thesis.
Key idea: TEEEC is not simply five sentences. Each letter represents a task. Some tasks, especially extending and explaining, may require more than one sentence.
TEEEC as tasks
Task
What it must do
Common problem
T — Topic
Introduce the paragraph’s topic and make its relationship to the question/thesis clear.
Too many topics, or no clear argument.
E — Extending / Elaborating
Make the topic more specific. Foreshadow the evidence. Add context, comparison, complication or focus.
Jumping straight to evidence, or introducing an unrelated idea.
E — Example / Evidence
Provide the quotation, example and technique that support the topic and extension.
Evidence is too general, or does not match the point being made.
E — Explaining
Explain how the technique’s effect supports the topic sentence and key idea.
Only naming a technique, or translating the quote without analysis.
C — Concluding / Linking
Return to the key idea and link the paragraph back to the thesis/question.
Repeating the topic sentence without sharpening the argument.
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Activity 1: Drag-and-drop exemplar labelling
Drag a TEEEC task label from the task bank onto the drop box beside each sentence or section.
Note: Some sections combine quotation and technique. Label these as Example / Evidence when the main job is to introduce the textual detail. Label the interpretation that follows as Explaining.
Task bank: drag a label onto a drop box.
Topic
Extending
Example / Evidence
Explaining
Concluding / Linking
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Topic: main paragraph argument
Extending: narrows or develops the topic
Evidence: quote, example, technique
Explaining: how meaning/effect supports the key idea
Concluding: final link back to argument
Paragraph 1: Journey: The North Coast
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Activity 2: Choose the strongest TEEEC move
Choose the option that best completes each TEEEC task. There is one question for each task: Topic, Extending, Example/Evidence, Explaining and Concluding.
Paragraph question: How does Robert Gray reveal the wonder of the everyday in Journey: The North Coast? Paragraph focus: Gray presents ordinary contact with the natural world as transformative, sensory and restorative.
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Activity 3: Identify mixed TEEEC tasks
Each sentence below performs a TEEEC task, but they are not in paragraph order. Some task types appear more than once. Match each sentence to its most likely task.
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Activity 4: Build the paragraph order
The sentence bank is mixed up. Click a sentence to move it into the paragraph box. Click a sentence in the paragraph box to send it back to the bank.
Sentence bank
Click a sentence to add it to your paragraph.
Your paragraph
Click a sentence here to return it to the bank.
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Activity 5: Match evidence to technique, meaning and question link
For each quotation, choose the technique, meaning and link to the question. This helps you move from evidence to explanation.
Question: How does Gray use language to indicate the importance of nature for humanity?
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Activity 6: Repair weak explaining sentences
Each weak explanation is too vague. Use the dropdowns to build a stronger explanation that explains technique, effect and the question link.
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Activity 7: Which sentence does not belong?
Each mini-paragraph contains one sentence that disrupts the TEEEC logic. Click the sentence that does not belong.
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Activity 8: Guided TEEEC sentence builder
This activity gives you dropdown menus for each part of a TEEEC paragraph. Build each sentence by selecting the phrase that best fits the question.
Question: How does Gray use language to indicate the importance of nature for humanity?
Open poem text: Journey: The North Coast
Next thing, I wake-up in a swaying bunk
as if on board a clipper
clambering at sea,
and it’s the train that booms and cracks,
it tears the wind apart.
The man’s gone
who had the bunk below me. I swing out,
close his bed and rattle up the sash—
there’s sunlight rotating
off the drab carpet. And the water sways
solidly in its silver bowl, so cold
it joins through my hand.
I see, where I’m bowed,
one of those bright crockery days
from so much I recall.
The train’s shadow, like a bird’s,
flees on the blue and silver paddocks,
over fences that look split from stone,
and banks of fern,
a red bank, full of roots,
over dark creeks, where logs are fallen,
and blackened tree trunks.
Down these slopes move,
as a nude descends a staircase,
slender white eucalypts;
and now the country bursts open on the sea—
across a calico beach unfurled,
strewn with flakes of light
that make the compartment whirl.
Shuttering shadows. I rise into the mirror
rested. I’ll leave my hair
ruffled a bit, stow the book and wash-bag
and city clothes. Everything done, press the latches
into the straining case
that for twelve months have been standing out
of a morning, above the wardrobe
in a furnished room.
T — Topic sentence
Build a sentence that names the poem, answers the question, and establishes the paragraph’s main idea.
Preview: Complete the dropdowns to build your topic sentence.
E — Extending / elaborating sentence
Build a sentence that narrows the topic and prepares the reader for the evidence.
Preview: Complete the dropdowns to build your extending sentence.
E — Example / evidence sentence
Build a sentence that introduces quotation and technique. Do not explain everything yet.
Preview: Complete the dropdowns to build your evidence sentence.
E — Explaining sentence
Build a sentence that explains how the technique supports the key idea and answers the question.
Preview: Complete the dropdowns to build your explaining sentence.
Optional second E — Example / evidence sentence
Use this if you want to strengthen the paragraph with a second piece of evidence. This sentence should mainly introduce the quotation and technique.
Preview: Leave blank or complete all dropdowns for a second evidence sentence.
Optional second E — Explaining sentence
If you use a second quotation, explain how it supports your key idea. This sentence should do more than repeat the evidence.
Preview: Leave blank or complete all dropdowns for a second explaining sentence.
C — Concluding / linking sentence
Build a sentence that returns to the question and the paragraph’s main idea.
Preview: Complete the dropdowns to build your concluding sentence.
Generate your paragraph, then copy it and open Canvas to submit.
Activity 9: Break down your Canvas AI feedback
After you submit your paragraph in Canvas and receive AI feedback, break the feedback into three improvement points. For each point, explain what the feedback said and what you will do about it.
Task: You do not need to copy all of the Canvas AI feedback. Choose the three most useful points for improving your next paragraph.
Feedback point 1
Feedback point 2
Feedback point 3
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Submit activity report to teacher
When you have finished the activities, choose your name and submit your activity report. This sends your activity results to your teacher through Netlify Forms.
Before submitting: check that you have completed the activities honestly. Your report includes activity scores, attempts, whether suggested answers were shown, your generated paragraph readiness and your reflection status.