Making sense of text: text structure resources

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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