Year 3 Text Structure Reading Unit | Australian Curriculum V9

Help your Year 3 students master text features and structure the way the Australian Curriculum asks for it. AC9E3LA05 asks students to identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation, and AC9E3LA03 asks them to describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose. This complete unit teaches students to read nonfiction like a pro.

This is built specifically for the Australian Curriculum. Students learn to name and use text features like headings, captions, bold words, and a glossary to find information fast, and to spot the three ways ideas connect. One clear idea runs through the whole unit: text features are like road signs that point you to what you need, and structure shows how the ideas fit together.

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 matching features to their jobs, through spotting sequence, cause and effect, and comparison, to writing a full feature and structure statement 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 Feature + Structure Statement: a text feature like a heading helps you find information, and the structure is sequence, cause and effect, or compare because the text uses certain signal words. This reusable sentence frame brings both standards together - using features and naming the structure with proof - 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 3

AC9E3LA05 - identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation

AC9E3LA03 - describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose

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