Explanation Text

What is the meaning of the Explanation text?

• retells events or experiences in the past

• explains, informs, or helps the reader on how to make or use something

• a non-fiction text that is used to describe how and why things happen

• an imaginative story to entertain people

What is the function of explanation text?

• To entertain the reader

• To describe how and why a phenomenon happens

• to describe something

• To persuade the readers

_____ is not the generic structure of the explanation text.

• Hypothesis

• Explanation Sequence

• General Statement

• Conclusion

Weather is the physical condition of the atmosphere at a particular time

• Explanation Sequence

• Conclusion

• General Statement

• Orientation

True or false. Explanation text tells the readers about how to make something

• True

• False

Explanation texts are written in...

• Past Continuous Tense 

• Simple Present Tense

• Past Perfect Tense

• Present tense

What type of text is an explanation text?

• Legend

• Fiction

• Non fiction

• Semi-fiction

Which one is not the title of the explanation text?

• How is chocolate is made?

• Reason for a new south Wales being chosen for the colony

• How does rain happen?

• How to make chocolate?

What is the purpose of the explanation text?

• To explain the steps of how to make something

• To explain the process of how something

• To report an important event

• To describe the way things are

What are the generic structure of the explanation text?

• Orientation, complication, resolution

• Orientation, events, re-orientation

• General statement, sequenced explanation

• General statement, recommendation