Types of Text-Grade 5

It is a text type that sorts items or ideas into categories according to their commonalities.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

A type of text that organizes events in the order they happened.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

It begins with a main idea and discusses the subcategories of that topic, comparing and contrasting them with each other.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

It presents ideas by listing or enumerating the kinds, characteristics, classes, types, parts, ways, groups, and other information of a certain thing.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

It is written to explain how and and why something in the world happens.

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Water cycle, how a steam engine works, how a law is made or why we blink when we sneeze.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

It is one which presents ideas by listing or enumerating the kinds, characteristics, classes, types, parts, ways, groups, and other information of a certain thing. it usually starts with the statement of general subject that is broken down into parts, classes, etc.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

A type of factual text that explains how or why something happens is an explanation. It begins with the topic, describes items related to the topic in the right order, and explains how these items are related to each other. It may have a conclusion. This text type is written in the present tense.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

A process or how-to text gives explanations or directions. Each sentence tells the next step in carrying out a process or in getting from one place to another.

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• Enumeration

• Time-order

Signal words used in enumeration are:

• Next

• Such as

• Following

• All of the above