The class engages in activities that involve putting words together to form complete thoughts, reinforcing the structure of sentences. By the end of the day, Jimmy reflects on what he has learned ...

We speak differently than we write. For comprehension development, children need exposure to syntax common to both.

Both sentence building strategies could predict activity in the major left hemisphere's language areas. But the effects were much stronger for predictive structure building.

Structure refers to how written text is organised ... To add more detail to this idea, we could split a story into sections: A classic example of this is the Greek myth of Icarus.

In the National 5 English Critical Reading assessment, you will be asked to comment on examples of language in an extract from a Scottish text you have previously studied (and elsewhere in the text).