Group 1- Explain forms of bullying

and give examples.

Group 2- Narrate why people bully
others. Cite one situation.
CLASSIFYING
TEXT TYPES
 Personal/
narrative factual persuasive
recount

expository explanation argumentative

What are text types?
written for a variety of purposes, using different forms and standards of
Composition/ language style

•A text is a piece of writing that you read or create.

Two main text types:

•Factual text types =factual description, recount, or persuasive
•Literary text types =poetry, narrative or personal response.
Three Main Categories:
most commonly used classification text materials is that one
based on text’s purpose and meaning

1. Expository texts
2. Narrative texts, and
3. Argumentative
(It aims to change the readers’ beliefs.)
Different text types
Text Types Description Examples
1. Narrative • Entertains, instructs or informs readers (fiction)
by telling a story. novels
short stories
• In Literature, texts tell a story or poems
part of a story. plays
non-fictional
• Narrative texts include plot (articles,
structure, conflict, characterization, newspaper reports,
setting, theme, point of view, historical writings)
sequencing, and transitions.
Different text types
Text Types Description Examples
2. Expository •Non-fiction (true) •Biographies

•Seeks to explain or inform •Autobiographies

•The information can be verified as true.

• Structures: descriptions, comparison/

contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution.

• Focused on a specific topic.

• There are often headings and
subheadings.

• It contains facts and information.

Expository text
•explain, inform or describe
•most frequently use to write structures
Expository structures can be classified into five categories:
•Description: where the author describes a topics characteristics, features,
attributes, etc. and gives examples.
•procedure or sequence: the author lists different activities in their
chronological order or enumerate items in a numerical order.
•comparison
•cause-effect explanation
•problem-solution presentation
In the expository category, the non-fictional texts have specific role to
inform or to teach the readers. They can come in a various formats,
depending of the area of use:

•business: reports, letters, executive summaries.

•journalism: essays, news reports, press releases, sports news.
•technical communication: user guides, technical reports or standards.
•academic and scientific communication: textbooks, student guides, scientific
reports, scientific journals’ articles, encyclopedia articles.
•general reference works: encyclopedia articles, or on-line, multi-domain
informative texts, as the Wikipedia articles.
Different text types
Text Types Description Examples
3. Explanation • Is used to describe how things work •How does a DVD player
and why things happen. work?
• An explanation tries to provide answers •Why are there different
to questions that the reader (or listener) seasons?
may have on a certain subject. •How do fresh water and
• Explanations are used to teach people salt water differ?
new information. How are they similar?
•What is the fastest way to
• describe why things happen clean my room?
• show how things are similar or different
• try to solve a problem or situation
Different text types
Text Types Description Examples

4. Recount • A recount retells past events in the • factual, such as a news

(Personal and order in which they happened. story
Factual • personal, such as a
Recounts) family holiday or your
opinion on a subject.
Different text types
Text Types Description Examples
5. Persuasive With persuasive text the author tries to
convince the reader to adopt a particular Advertisements
opinion or perform a certain action. (Commercials)
 Personal/
narrative factual persuasive
recount

expository explanation argumentative

Under what text types does the essay “How to Fight Big Bullies?” Check
below and prove your answers.

_____ narrative _____ explanation

_____factual recount _____ expository
_____ personal recount _____ persuasive
Identify which of the text types does the texts belong to? What grammatical
features are in the text that allows you to say it belongs to a particular text type?

Chocó energy Bar

The best chocolate energy bar has arrived to Ecuador. It is delicious,

it has milk, almonds and chocolate syrup. It also has many vitamins that will
help you grow and make your teeth very strong. You can’t keep living without
trying this bar .Buy one today !!!

Persuasive
Source: Logos. (2011, September 05). Types of paragraph. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/kriziak/types-of-paragraph
Identify which of the text types does the texts belong to? What grammatical
features are in the text that allows you to say it belongs to a particular text type?

My Last Vacation
My last vacation was very fun. First I went to the beach with my
cousins. We surfed and swam in the ocean. Then went to my grandparents
farm and rode a horse. Next we climb a big mountain. Finally we came back
home and rest . I had the best vacation ever.

Narrative
Source: Logos. (2011, September 05). Types of paragraph. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/kriziak/types-of-paragraph
What are the different purposes of text types?
What are the different text types?
What is the importance of distinguishing
the type of text being read?
Purposes
• developing social networks
• engaging in civic discourse
• supporting personal and spiritual growth
• reflecting on experience
• communicating professionally and academically;
• building relationships with others, including friends, family, and
like-minded individuals;
• engaging in aesthetic experiences”
Assessment
A. Identify whether the given passages are narrative, expository,
explanation, recount, or persuasive.

_______1. How do we breathe?

The nose, trachea and lungs are the main organs which make up the
respiratory system. This system allows the exchange of gases which are need
ed for us to live.
Breathing happens when the brain sends a message through the nerves to the
intercostal muscles which lie between the ribs and diaphragm. When the
instruction is received, the muscles pull the ribs outwards and the diaphragm
relaxes so that the space in the chest gets bigger. Because the pressure in the
chest gets lower, air rushes in to fill the lungs…
source: http://dinus.ac.id/repository/docs/ajar/explanation_text_introduction_and_overview-fp-916c1fe4.pdf
Assessment
A. Identify whether the given passages are narrative, expository,
explanation, recount, or persuasive.
_______2.
When I was five years old, I took an extreme liking to my sister's toys. It
made little difference that I had a trunk overflowing with dolls and toys of my own.
Her "big girl" treasures were much easier to break, and much more appealing. Like-
wise, when I was ten and she was twelve, the earrings and make-up that she was
slowly permitted to experiment with held my attention, while my former obsession
with catching bugs seemed to be a distant and fading memory.

Taken from Starlight, Star Bright K Garnett (1998)

source: https://sites.google.com/site/p5cwriting/references/examples-of-personal-recounts
Assessment
A. Identify whether the given passages are narrative, expository,
explanation, recount, or persuasive.
_______3.
Speech production is made possible by the specialized movements of our vocal
organs that generate speech sounds waves. Like all sound production, speech production
requires a source of energy. The source of energy for speech production is the steady stream of
air that comes from the lungs as we exhale. When we breathe normally, the air stream is
inaudible. To become audible, the air stream must vibrate rapidly. The vocal cords cause the air
stream to vibrate. As we talk, the vocal cords open and close rapidly, chopping up the steady air
stream into a series of puffs. These puffs are heard as a buzz. But this buzz is still not speech…

(Text adapted by Gerot & Wignell 1994 from Denes & Pinson 1963)
Assessment
B. Create your own expository paragraph with the following topics:
•5 or more sentences

-Describe the major stressors in teens' lives.

-Explain how music affects your life.
-Describe three objects that symbolize our culture and explain why you selected them.
-Explain why you are interested in a particular career.

CRITERIA
-Organization (grammar, coherence, structure) -5 pts
-Appropriateness to the purpose -5 pts
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