Making sense of text: text structure resources

Students use an index from a book on windsurfing to explain their understandings of an index and to find specific information.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

Students complete a cloze passage and use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

Students match ten topics or subjects to the correct Dewey Decimal call number.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students describe what a thesaurus is, and label the features of a thesaurus.

Student use an extract from a telephone directory to answer questions identifying phone numbers, fax numbers, and internet address.

Students use a page from a telephone directory to answer questions identifying phone numbers, fax numbers and internet addresses.

The parts of a book provide the context for this resource with 12 questions on the various components of a book.

Students are assessed on knowing how to use a contents page. SJ-1-1-1999. Text provided.

A poem and brief article about Japanese dolls is the context for this comprehension resource that has focus on comparisons and purpose. SJ-2-2-1983. Text provided.

Using a page from a dictionary, this resource assesses students' dictionary skills through a series of short answer and selected response questions.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

This resource requires students to match ten ideas about the different parts to books with the correct term.

A contents page from a book on windsurfing is used by students to identify where to go to for specific information.

This resource is about types of books and tests the understanding of the differences between fiction - non-fiction, and assesses biography and autobiography.

Students use an index page to identify the pages they should go to, in order to find specific information.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Students use an index page from a book on New Zealand to answer six questions.

Students read a poem 'Full Moon Tiger' to answer questions about metaphor, contrast, rhyme and alliteration. SJ-2-3-1987. Text provided.

Students read an extract from a play then answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

This resource requires students to answer four selected response questions on a table of contents from the book 'Antarctica'.