Text Structure Task Cards

Five short passages about household chores, each written in a different non-fiction text structure, for students to identify the structure and note the signal words that reveal it.
Year levels
Years 3–5
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Updated Jan 05, 2022

Subject
Reading, English
Topic
Literacy Centers, Text Structure
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9E4LA04 — identify how text connectives including temporal

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About this resource

Resource Includes:

  • A journal page or reference sheet for teaching text structure

  • 5 passages. Each is written in a different text structure.

The Five Text Structures Include:

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify five non-fiction text structures

  • Use signal words to determine how a passage is organised

Skills covered

  • Spotting signal words — recording the key words in each passage that point to its structure

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9E4LA04 — identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas

Core concepts

  • Text structure

  • Signal words

  • Cause and effect

  • Problem and solution

  • Sequence

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