Text structure and organisation Early childhood (6 -8 years) Late childhood adolescence (9 -12 Mid-adolescence (13 -15 years) – years) Subject mostly at the beginning of the Varied sentence beginnings: Dependent clauses appear more frequently sentence, often first person pronoun; at the beginning of the sentences; cohesion with subject (which might be some use of adverbs or prepositional in some genres (e.g. explanation, argument) expressed in different ways) phrases of time or place established through end of sentence being prepositional phrases or dependent picked up in the beginning of the next clauses sentence (e.g. The dissolved gold is taken to another tank with small amounts of carbon. Reference made through use of pronouns, Clear connection between clauses The carbon pieces are screened from the although not often clearly slurry.) Topic sentences As texts become longer, are ‘macro-Themes’ Paragraphs used as the beginning point for the whole text, and or topic sentences ‘hyper-themes’ at the beginning of the paragraph Reference more controlled
Text structure and organisation Early childhood (6 -8 years) Late childhood – adolescence (9 -12 years) Mid-adolescence (13 -15 years) Subject mostly at the beginning of the sentence, often first person pronoun; some use of adverbs or prepositional phrases of time or place Reference made through use of pronouns, although not often clearly Varied sentence beginnings: with subject (which might be expressed in different ways) prepositional phrases or dependent clauses Clear connection between clauses Topic sentences Paragraphs Reference more controlled Dependent clauses appear more frequently at the beginning of the sentences; cohesion in some genres (e.g. explanation, argument) established through end of sentence being picked up in the beginning of the next sentence (e.g. The dissolved gold is taken to another tank with small amounts of carbon. The carbon pieces are screened from the slurry.) As texts become longer, ‘macro-Themes’ are used as the beginning point for the whole text, and ‘hyper-themes’ or topic sentences at the beginning of the paragraph
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