Stage 2 reading - Text structure
Learning intention
Students will learn to identify specific structural and language features within types of text. Students will learn to identify genre in a range of imaginative, persuasive and informative texts.
Syllabus outcome
- EN2-4A: uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies.
- EN2-8B: identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter.
National Literacy Learning Progression
Understanding texts
UnT6: identifies the purpose of predictable informative, imaginative and persuasive texts (e.g. uses verbs and dot points to identify a set of instructions) (comprehension)
- UnT7: identifies the purpose of a broad range of informative, imaginative and persuasive texts (e.g. advertisements, diary entry) (comprehension); identifies language and text features that signal purpose in a predictable text (e.g. diagrams, dialogue) (process); describes the language and visual features of texts using metalanguage (e.g. grammatical terms such as cohesion, tense, noun groups) (vocabulary)
- UnT8: explains how authors use evidence and supporting detail to build and verify ideas (comprehension); uses knowledge of the features and conventions of the type of text to build meaning (e.g. recognises that the beginning of a persuasive text may introduce the topic and the line of argument) (process); identifies language features used to present opinions or points of view (process)
- UnT9: evaluates text features for relevance to purpose and audience (comprehension); uses knowledge of a broader range of cohesive devices to track meaning (e.g. word associations) (see Grammar) (process); identifies language used to create tone or atmosphere (vocabulary); analyses language and visual features in texts using metalanguage (e.g. cohesion, interpretation, figurative) (vocabulary)
NAPLAN item descriptors
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Task outline
Full task descriptions and accompanying resources are available for download in PDF format the download box on this page.
Identifying genre
Students use book covers and blurbs from a collection of books and categorise them into ‘fiction’ or ‘non-fiction’.
Features of narrative texts
Students identify the features of narrative texts (four activities).
Features of informative texts
Students identify the features of informative texts.
Features of persuasive texts
Students explore modal language.
Developing an understanding of persuasive texts
Students explore persuasive language techniques.
Which type of text am I?
Students identify different types of text and their effectiveness.
Pronouns in persuasive texts
Students identify pronouns in texts and learn how authors use them to persuade.
Fact and opinion in persuasive texts
Students learn how authors use both facts and opinions to persuade.