Understanding Text Types: Factual and Literary

• Text type refers to the classification of how a text is written, determining its structure, purpose, and language features.

Categories of Text Types

• Factual texts use facts and information to inform, instruct, or persuade.
• Literary texts focus on storytelling, fiction, and creative writing to narrate, entertain, or evoke emotions.

Factual Texts

• The aim is to inform, instruct, or persuade using facts.
• Common examples include News Reports, Speeches, Diary Entries, Instructional Texts, and Persuasive Texts.

Literary Texts

• The aim is to narrate, entertain, or evoke emotions.
• Common examples include Fables, Short Stories, and Poetry.

Purposes of Text Types

• Texts can entertain by engaging the audience with storytelling, humor, or drama.
• Texts can inform by providing facts and knowledge.
• Texts can persuade by influencing opinions, actions, or beliefs.

Text Structure

• Refers to how information in a text is organized.

Description

• Describes a person, place, event, or animal in detail using vivid adjectives.

Sequence/Instructional/Process

• Provides steps in performing an action or explains the order of events
• Uses signal words like first, second, before, after, next, then, last, finally, steps, and phases.

Cause and Effect

• Identifies what happened and why it happened
• Uses signal words like causes, effects, is caused by, is produced by, results from, because, consequently, and as a result.

Comparison and Contrast

• Shows similarities and/or differences between two subjects.
• Uses signal words like similarly, likewise, on the other hand, however, in contrast, different from, and compared to.

Problem-Solution

• Identifies a problem and suggests a solution.
• Uses signal words like problem, solution, issue, resolve, fix, answer, and remedy.

Summary of Key Concepts

• Text Types include Factual, which aims to inform, instruct or persuade, and Literary, which aims to narrate or entertain.
• Text Purposes are to inform, entertain, or persuade.
• Text Structures include Description, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Comparison/Contrast, and Problem-Solution.
• Description provides details.
• Sequence gives steps or order.
• Cause and Effect shows reasons and results.
• Comparison/Contrast highlights similarities and differences.
• Problem-Solution identifies an issue and suggests a fix.