Year 8 · English · Reading
Text forms, structures and features
Analyse how texts are structured, how blended forms work, and how media codes and language features create effects.
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- 3D lesson: Text forms, structures and features — Spot text structures from their signal words, sort fact from invention in blended forms, read the codes on posters and trailers, and explain the effect of language features.
- 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 8 English topics
Vocabulary and word origins · Comprehension: inference, theme and conclusions · Critical reading and bias · Spelling patterns · Sentences and grammar · Punctuation for effect · Writing to entertain · Writing to inform and explain · Writing to persuade