Learn to use conventions of form, layout, structure and language to get their meaning across in your essays with this article from BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

In 4th grade, for example, students learn how to structure a narrative story, sketching out the rise and fall of the plot and filling in organizers with details about their characters and setting.

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Teaching text structure can help.

Discourse Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special ...