Help your Year 4 students master text structure the way the Australian Curriculum asks for it. AC9E4LA03 asks students to identify how texts are organised into characteristic stages depending on their purpose, and AC9E4LA04 asks them to identify how text connectives sequence and connect ideas. This complete unit teaches students to spot the four main nonfiction structures, use signal words as proof, and explain the author’s purpose.

This is built specifically for the Australian Curriculum. Students learn the four structures - chronology, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution - practice using signal words to identify each, judge the overall structure of a whole passage, and explain why an author picked that structure for the message. One clear idea runs through the whole unit: a text’s structure is a blueprint, and the author chooses the one that fits the message best.

Every lesson follows a consistent arc: a clear learning target, direct instruction with modelled examples, guided and independent practice, and a recap. Three worksheets (six pages) move students from vocabulary and signal-word matching, through identifying structures and explaining purpose, to describing a passage’s structure and purpose on their own with a self-check. The unit closes with a solo exit ticket and a four-point rubric.

What is the keystone skill? The Structure + Purpose Statement: this text uses a certain structure, I know because of specific signal words, and the author chose it for a particular purpose. This reusable sentence frame forces all three parts of a strong Year 4 answer - the structure, the signal-word proof, and the author’s purpose - into one sentence students can use with any nonfiction text.

Includes a full lesson deck, three worksheets, an exit ticket, and a 4-point rubric. All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM V9 (ENGLISH), YEAR 4

AC9E4LA03 - identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes

AC9E4LA04 - identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas

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