Year 7 · English · Reading
Text structures and features
Identify the structure, language features and visual features of news, narrative, non-fiction and digital texts and explain their purpose.
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- 3D lesson: Text structures and features — Build a news pyramid and a story mountain from 3D tiles, tap the 5 Ws and the opinion words, then choose the right book feature and spot the ad on a web page.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 3 (Years 7–8), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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More Year 7 English topics
Word origins and vocabulary · Comprehension strategies · Thinking critically about texts · Spelling patterns · Sentences and grammar · Punctuation · Writing to entertain · Writing to inform · Writing to persuade · Planning, drafting and editing