In the thesis, we analyzed the structure of video lectures at a distance on the example of close reading from the subject "Croatian language". The corpus of reading units that we have included contains a total of 18 video lectures from the first to the fourth grade of high school. In the first phase of the paper, we presented the methodological definition of video lectures, as a time organization of distance learning, in order to have a theoretical basis. Before analyzing the structure of video lectures, we presented the basic proposals of foreign literature on the essential characteristics of the structure of video lectures with an emphasis on interactivity and distinguishing video lectures from video clips as essential features of video lectures. The final and most important part of the paper was an analysis of the structure of video lectures which showed that the structure primarily consists of title slides with announcement of the topic, slide with educational outcomes, the central part which includes analysis of the topic by reading excerpts from the text with explanations and interpretation with accompanying questions and tasks. In addition to the most important elements of the structure, in the analysis we showed that video lectures contain slides of necessary equipment for students during the video lesson, motivation, tasks for (self)evaluation with summarization, content for those who want to know more and literature needed to create video lectures.