Analysing Text Structure
CONCEPTUALAnalyse how a text's structure — including its overall organisation, use of chapters, stanzas, scenes, paragraphs, or sections — contributes to its meaning, style, and development of ideas
Mastery Evidence
- Explain how a non-chronological structure (e.g., flashback, frame narrative) creates suspense or surprise
- Analyse the role of a specific paragraph in developing and refining a key concept in a non-fiction text
- Compare how two texts use different structures (e.g., epistolary vs. linear narrative) and the effect of each
Assessment Prompt
“When [child] analyses a poem or novel, can they explain how the author's structural choices — like starting in the middle of the action, or ending with a repeated image — shape the overall meaning of the text?”
Curriculum Standards7 alignments
RI.6.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsAnalyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
RI.7.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsAnalyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
RI.8.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsAnalyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
RL.6.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsAnalyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
RL.7.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsAnalyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
RL.8.5Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical SubjectsCompare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
KS3-ENG-R-3aThe national curriculum in Englandknowing how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, presents meaning
Prerequisites1
- Text Features & PresentationhardAges 7—10
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- Text Features & Presentation hard
KS3 text structure analysis extends KS2 identifying how language choices and text structure contribute to meaning
- Expressive and Sensory Language hard
Identifying language contribution requires literary language understanding
- Listening to Texts Read Aloud hard
Recognising literary language requires listening comprehension of stories/poetry
- How Many in Total? soft
Sorting and categorising objects uses the same counting/cardinality skills from maths
- One-to-one counting hard
Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'
- Non-Fiction Text Features soft
Non-fiction structures knowledge supports analysing text presentation
- Main Topic of Informational Texts hard
Non-fiction structures build on Y1 informational text main topic
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