English / Year 7 / Language / Text structure and organisation

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Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531)

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  • learning about the structure of the book or film review and how it moves from context description to text summary and then to a text judgment
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  • Literacy Literacy
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