TEXT TYPES

Directions: Identify the type of text based on the given description.

It is a type of non-fiction text that explains a process (for example, how something works or why something happens).

The purpose of this text is to provide sequenced information or directions so that people can successfully perform activities in safe, efficient and appropriate ways.

It can be written to entertain, to inform, to amuse, to share knowledge, and pass on culture.

The purpose of this text is to retell events in chronological order.

The purpose of this text is to entertain, to instruct or to inform the reader by telling a story.

 

Directions: Classify the following text types as factual or literary.

instructional or procedural texts

• FACTUAL

• LITERARY

RECOUNT

• LITERARY

• FACTUAL

POETRY

• FACTUAL

• LITERARY

INSTRUCTIONAL OR PROCEDURAL TEXTS

• LITERARY

• FACTUAL

DISCUSSION TEXTS

• FACTUAL

• LITERARY