ILLUSTRATES DIFFERENT TEXT TYPES “DEVELOP PARAGRAPH THAT ILLUSTRATES DIFFERENT TEXT TYPES” TEXT TYPES: •NARRATIVE •EXPOSITORY •EXPLANATORY •FACTUAL AND PERSONAL RECOUNT •PERSUASIVE TEXT TYPE NARRATIVE TEXT TYPE
• It helps tell the story and PURPOSE: to entertain the
keeps the story moving. readers through telling a story. • It include action, events LANGUAGE: written in first person or third person perspective; written and exciting descriptive in past or present tense; use words. creative language to create image. • Helps keep the reader STRUCTURE: there is beginning engaged in the story. and ending, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution. EXPOSITORY TEXT TYPE • Explains something or provides PURPOSE: to simplify and expose instruction. ideas, persons, and places through • It describes a process and move the educational and purposeful facts. reader step by step through a method. LANGUAGE: uses language that • It is a type of text that informs, focuses on the subject written in the past or present tense. explains, and describes the subject to the readers by providing factual STRUCTURE: uses signal words, information from reliable sources. diagrams, charts and illustrations • It includes : reports, textbooks, can used to support or replace text. historical, economic, or scientific information. EXPLANATORY TEXT TYPE • It gives explanation on a PURPOSE: to explain what, process of how and why how, and why a certain thing something happens. Examples: happened. instructions, process, and LANGAUGE: written in present direction. tense, uses technical • Offers the reader information terminologies, and uses action on a certain topic. verbs. • Are also factual in nature and STRUCTURE: begins with an are not common tool for fiction opening statement that writers. introduces the subject to delved into. FACTUAL AND PERSONAL RECOUNTS • It is a paragraph which tells PURPOSE: to list and describe past events or experience for past experiences by retelling the purpose of informing or events in the order in which entertaining. they happened. • It includes personal events, • Recounts are written to retell factual incidents or imaginary events with purpose of incidents. informing your audience. TWO TYPES OF RECOUNTS: • PERSONAL RECOUNTS - It is when the writer is involved; retells an action, interest, event, and activity. - EXAMPLES: diary journal, personal letter, anecdote, biography. PURPOSE: to build a relationship between the readers and the writer by providing information that the latter has been personally involved. LANGUAGE: uses first person pronoun, uses action verbs, uses everyday language, written in the past tense. STRUCTURE: gives details to who, what, when, where, and why. It is arranged in chronological order so it has a beginning, middle and an end. TWO TYPES OF RECOUNTS: FACTUAL RECOUNT - It is a recount where the writer is not in the recount but the structure is the same as personal recount, because it has a beginning, middle and end. - A type of text that gives useful facts and information on a certain subject, topic, or issue. - Examples: news reports, interviews, history. PURPOSE: to give information by means, of facts; to explore different point of view on a given subject. LANGUAGE: written in present tense; uses formal language; title is written in question form. STRUCTURE: provides background information on the issue or topic gives details about what, who, when, or where of a subject. PERSUASIVE TEXT TYPE • It is one in which the writer is PURPOSE: to encourage or convince actually giving his own opinion on a the readers of the merits of adopting certain subject or topic and seeks to a particular viewpoint or taking a convince the readers to agree. specific course of action. • Also include facts and information LANGUAGE: written in the simple that help to back up the writer’s present tense; uses concession, opinion. comparison, and cause-effect • EXAMPLES: speeches or editorial subordinating conjunctions essays, advertisement, commercial, (therefore, because of this, this proves that.) and other forms of writing where the main goal is persuasion. STRUCTURE: states opinion on a specific topic.