https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/8th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/x435b1de09a877dd7:craft-and-structure-8/x435b1de09a877dd7:analyzing-text-structure-8/a/analyzing-paragraph-structure 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Analyzing paragraph structure | Guided practice Learn how the sentences in a paragraph work together to express an author's ideas. article https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/8th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/x435b1de09a877dd7:craft-and-structure-8/x435b1de09a877dd7:analyzing-text-structure-8/v/part-to-whole-relationships-in-text-structure-reading 2025-08-04T18:51:53.65884109Z Part-to-whole relationships in text structure The video teaches how smaller text sections work together to support a whole text, like a giant robot made of smaller robots. Well, a text is made up of other, smaller sections of text, which are in turn made up of paragraphs and sentences—and each smaller component serves the larger component to drive towards the main point of the text. David Rheinstrom video https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka_thumbnails_cache/be29c89d-9d70-4e1b-a692-d347d58aa08c_1280_720_base.png Part-to-whole relationships in text structure The video teaches how smaller text sections work together to support a whole text, like a giant robot made of smaller robots. Well, a text is made up of other, smaller sections of text, which are in turn made up of paragraphs and sentences—and each smaller component serves the larger component to drive towards the main point of the text. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/-GY2Cj1w_PY.mp4/-GY2Cj1w_PY.mp4 283 Analyzing text structure https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/8th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/x435b1de09a877dd7:craft-and-structure-8/x435b1de09a877dd7:analyzing-text-structure-8/a/comparing-and-contrasting-literary-text-structures 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Comparing and contrasting literary text structures | Guided practice Learn why authors build texts differently and how those differences can affect your understanding. article https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/8th-grade-reading-and-vocabulary/x435b1de09a877dd7:craft-and-structure-8/x435b1de09a877dd7:analyzing-text-structure-8/e/text-structure-8 2026-05-21T11:40:40.471298507Z Text structure Practice text structure Heather M. Meston exercise