To inform, instruct, or persuade through the use of facts and information.

• Factual

• Literary

To entertain, enlighten, or elicit emotion through a creative use of language and structure.

• Factual

• Literary

Manual of a printer

• Procedure

• Recount

• Information Report

• Description

• Explanation

Recipes

• Procedure

• Recount

• Information Report

• Description

• Explanation

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

POETRY

• FACTUAL

• LITERARY

INSTRUCTIONAL OR PROCEDURAL TEXTS

• LITERARY

• FACTUAL

DISCUSSION TEXTS

• FACTUAL

• LITERARY

These text types are used to entertain using creative language.

• Factual Text types

• Procedural Text types

• Literary Text Types

• Problem/Solution Text types