Text structure and organisation

Outcomes

VCELA369
Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors

Play Activities 7

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VCELA380
Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts

Play Activities 10

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VCELA381
Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses

Play Activities 18

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