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    Our Text Types: Narrative Expository Technical Persuasive

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    The document discusses the four main types of texts: narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive. Narrative texts entertain through stories, expository texts inform through facts and information using text features, technical texts provide instructions through steps, and persuasive texts aim to convince the reader of an opinion or action. The document also lists common text structures such as problem-solution, sequence, description, compare-contrast, and cause-effect that authors use to organize information within each text type.

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    The document discusses the four main types of texts: narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive. Narrative texts entertain through stories, expository texts inform through facts and information using text features, technical texts provide instructions through steps, and persuasive texts aim to convince the reader of an opinion or action. The document also lists common text structures such as problem-solution, sequence, description, compare-contrast, and cause-effect that authors use to organize information within each text type.

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    The document discusses the four main types of texts: narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive. Narrative texts entertain through stories, expository texts inform through facts and information using text features, technical texts provide instructions through steps, and persuasive texts aim to convince the reader of an opinion or action. The document also lists common text structures such as problem-solution, sequence, description, compare-contrast, and cause-effect that authors use to organize information within each text type.

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    Our Text Types: Narrative Expository Technical Persuasive

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    The document discusses the four main types of texts: narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive. Narrative texts entertain through stories, expository texts inform through facts and information using text features, technical texts provide instructions through steps, and persuasive texts aim to convince the reader of an opinion or action. The document also lists common text structures such as problem-solution, sequence, description, compare-contrast, and cause-effect that authors use to organize information within each text type.

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    Text Type & Text Structures Resource Page

    he four text types list four general reasons why authors write. Identifying the text type of a passage helps the reader set the purpose for reading and alerts the reader to the organization of the piece.

    Narrative

    Expository
    Facts/ information Text features (headings, bold words, charts, graphs, captions)

    Technical
    Information to perform a task Steps

    Persuasive
    Author tries to convince reader to take a certain opinion or perform a certain action

    Entertains Tells a story Character(s), setting, problem, resolution

    ve Text Structures Fi

    ext structures are organizational patterns found within the text types. An author often chooses one main text structure for a piece but may incorporate several of the text structures throughout the piece.
    Problem and Solution Compare and Contrast

    Sequence
    Steps Specific order

    Description Details

    Cause and Effect

    Problem, which is solved

    Problem
    Event 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Event Event

    Comparing how things are the same/ different

    Something causes something else to happen

    Solution

    Balanced Literacy Second Grade Skidmore & Graber Kagan Publishing 1 (800) 933-2667 www.KaganOnline.com

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