This document provides an introduction to using Point, Evidence, Explanation (PEE) paragraphs to analyze texts. PEE involves making a point about a text, providing evidence from the text to support the point, and explaining how the evidence proves the point. The document explains that PEE allows students to demonstrate their understanding, interpretation, and analysis of texts. It provides examples of identifying the point, evidence, and explanation in paragraphs about characters from the book "Holes." Students are then instructed to write their own PEE paragraphs analyzing characters from "Holes" and create a PEE mobile organizing their analysis.

1. PEE Paragraphs
AIM: To understand how this structure
helps us write about English
February 9th
Starter: Put this PEE into order:
‘The red sauce trickled
down from is lips, down over
his chin on to his black
jacket.’ This shows that he
eats in a disgusting way and
gets food all over himself.
It could be because he is in
a rush to get food as he
hasn’t eaten for a long time,
or perhaps he is not used to
other people watching him.
Skellig has no table manners
and is a messy eater.
Point
Evidence
Explanation

2. ‘The red sauce trickled down from is
lips, down over his chin on to his black
jacket’
Skellig has no table manners and is a messy
eater.
‘The red sauce trickled down from is lips, down
over his chin on to his black jacket.’ (Page 27)
This shows that he eats in a disgusting way
and gets food all over himself. It could be
because he is in a rush to get food as he
hasn’t eaten for a long time, or perhaps he is
not used to other people watching him eat.
Point
Evidence
Explanation

3. Introduction: Using Point, Evidence,
and Explanation (PEE)
• When you are writing about a text or
discussing a text it is very important
that you use quotes to back up what you
are saying.
• Using PEE is a way of writing about a
text making sure that you include
textual evidence.

4. Why use PEE?
• Reading is assessed by looking at 5 aspects
of a piece of writing. These are:
• Understand and select information and use of
evidence
• Interpret evidence
• Text structure and organisation
• Writer’s use of language
• Writer’s purpose and effect

5. So…
• PEE gives you a structured way of covering
these assessment foci.
• Using PEE will help you get a better level in
reading.
• It proves you understand and can write about
what you have read.

6. Identify the point, evidence and
explanation.
In pairs, look at the paragraph below and
decide what is the Point, Evidence and
Explanation. When you’re done, write this
out and label it in your books:
‘I tried not to breathe, not to smell him.’
Even though Michael is helping Skellig, he
doesn’t want to smell the horrible smell
coming from him. Michael thinks that
Skellig smells awful.

7. Identify the point, evidence and
explanation.
(Point) Michael thinks that Skellig
smells awful. (Evidence) ‘I tried not to
breathe, not to smell him.’
(Explanation) Even though Michael is
helping Skellig he doesn’t want to smell
the horrible smell coming from him.

8. Copy the following down to help you use
Point / Evidence / Explanation (PEE)
• Point – What does the quote show in
very simple terms?
• Evidence – This is a ‘quote’ taken from
the text to prove or support what it is
that you are saying.
• Explanation – This is where you give a
more detailed explanation of the point.
It is good to include your own personal
opinion here.

9. Holes
• There are some great descriptions of people in
the book Holes which tell us something about the
characters the writer’s describing.
• Mr Sir: ‘A man was sitting with his feet up on a
desk. He turned his head when Stanley entered,
but otherwise didn’t move.’
• What do you think this quote tells us about Mr
Sir?

10. ‘A man was sitting with his feet up on a
desk. He turned his head when Stanley
entered, but otherwise didn’t move.’
Mr Sir

11. Now it’s your turn
• Write a PEE paragraph about Mr Sir, based on
the quote we have been looking at.
• You don’t have to use all the quote, just the
bit which is important to the point you’re
making.
• Is he lazy, frightening, important, uncaring?

12. ‘A man was sitting with his feet up on a
desk. He turned his head when Stanley
entered, but otherwise didn’t move.’
• P: Mr Sir is presented as a _________
character.
• E: In the 4th chapter it says: ‘(your evidence
from the extract)’
• E: This tells me that __________
• Remember not to repeat your point in your
explanation.

13. PEE mobiles
• Complete another PEE based on a different
character from Holes.
• Stanley: ‘When Stanley was younger he used to
play with stuffed animals and pretend the
animals were at camp.’
• Write what point you want to make about Stanley
from this quote, then put the evidence
underneath this and finally explain how your
evidence proves your point.

14. Development: PEEing on Stanley
• Look carefully at your quote.
• What point can you make using it?
• How can you give more detail in your
explanation?
• Write down your PEE to go with the quote in
your book.

15. Now create your own PEE mobile
using the notes in your book.
• Make sure that:
– it is neat
– You have included POINT / EVIDENCE /
EXPLANATION in the correct sections
– You can decorate your mobile once you have
written in it.