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Develop your students ability to understand and analyse how texts are structured with this scaffolded resource. Designed to strengthen reading, writing, and critical thinking skills, students will learn to confidently identify text stages and phases across texts with a variety of purposes, including to entertain, inform, and persuade.

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This teacher resource includes:

• Guided sheets for pair exploration of key concepts
• Three scaffolded printable sheets with increasing levels of difficulty, guiding students from identifying text stages and phases, to comparing how authors structure different texts, and finally creating their own short texts with clear stages and phases.
• Clear worked examples (level 1) and guided practice tasks to support learners at all levels.
• A focus on key concepts: recognising the characteristic stages (introduction, body, conclusion) and phases (hooks, background, evidence, resolution, concluding statements) of texts, understanding how structure varies depending on purpose, and analysing how authors’ choices affect meaning and audience engagement.
• Answer sheets are included as a guide for teachers, as answers may vary. 

Page 2 - 3: Guided Task for students to complete in pairs

Page 4 – Page 9: Student Tasks. 

Not only does this resource improve students’ reading, comprehension and writing skills, it also develops their ability to analyse text structure, understand authorial choices, and create/adapt coherent, purpose-driven writing.

Note: Differentiated tasks can be printed double-sided, two pages per sheet, or distributed over multiple lessons.

Format: PDF

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features. (AC9E6LA03)

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