Kinds of Text

Essential Questions

• What are the different kinds of text?

• How can knowing the kind of text help me to understand what I read?

Narrative Text

• Narrative text is text that is written to tell a story

• Narrative text includes fiction text, like stories

• Narrative text also includes some kinds of nonfiction, like biographies

Narrative Text

• Can you think of any examples of narrative text that we have read this year?

Narrative Text

• Narrative text includes story elements such as characters, setting, plot, theme, and conflict

• Narratives have a beginning, a middle, and an end

Poetic Text

• Poetic text is…well, poetry!

• Poetic text looks different from narratives

• What are some elements of poetic text?

Poetic Text

• Poetic text often uses sound devices such as rhyme and alliteration

• Poetic text also uses figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification

Informational Text

• Informational text is written to give information

• Informational text includes directions, articles, and other texts written to explain new ideas

Informational Text

• Informational text includes text features like headings, titles, captions, photographs, diagrams, and so forth

Informational Text

• Some kinds of informational text can be called EXPOSITORY text

• Expository text is informational text that is written using a text structure like compare and contrast, description, cause and effect, or so on

Persuasive Text

• Persuasive text is text written to persuade someone to do something or think in a certain way

Persuasive Text

• Persuasive text includes advertisements, editorials, and reviews

Kinds of Text

• So far, we have talked about these kinds of text:– Narrative– Poetic– Informational– Persuasive

Let’s Review!

• Which kind of text is written to give information?

• Informational text

Let’s Review!

• What kind of text is a fairy tale?

• Narrative

Let’s Review!

• If you are reading an advertisement for new sneakers, what kind of text are you reading?

• Persuasive

A look at some different texts

• On the next few slides, you will see some different texts

• Can you identify the kind of text for each?

What kind of text?

snow fallslike a layer of icing coating the worldin soft, silent

sweetness

• This is an example of poetic text

• Can you find the simile?

• What about the alliteration?

What kind of text?

snow fallslike a layer of icing coating the worldin soft, silent

sweetness

• This is an example of poetic text

• Can you find the simile?

• What about the alliteration?

What kind of text?

snow fallslike a layer of icing coating the worldin soft, silent

sweetness

• Notice how this poem is written in short lines

• What is it about?

What kind of text?

• This text is informational text

• It is written to give information

• Notice that it has a title and a heading

All About Snowflakes

Snowflakes are beautiful crystals. They form when tiny cloud droplets freeze.

Kinds of snowflakes Did you know that there are different kinds of snowflakes?

Depending on what it is like inside the cloud, snowflakes can be flat plates or long columns.

What kind of text?

Buy a new Snowsmart shovel! Don’t let winter get you down. With a new Snowsmart

shovel, you can clear your driveway in half the time. Buy one today! Supplies are limited—don’t wait!

Recommended by snow removal experts nationwide

• This text is persuasive text.

• What is it trying to persuade readers to do?

• What persuasive tricks do you see?

Author’s Purpose

• Authors write these kinds of text for three main purposes

• TO INFORM• TO PERSUADE• TO ENTERTAIN

Author’s Purpose

• BECAUSE YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS…

• On your notes, write down examples for each purpose.

A question to think about

• Can we combine the different kinds of text?

• For example, could a poem give information?

• Could persuasive text include alliteration?

A question to think about

• The answer is yes—in a way

• For example, there are poems that tell stories

• These are called narrative poems

• The purpose of these poems is still to entertain

Why is it important to know the author’s purpose?

• When we know the author’s purpose, we can use the right strategies to read the text

• It’s like building a shelf—we want to use the right tools for the job!

What have we learned?

• What are the kinds of text?

• What are some purposes for writing?

What have we learned?

• What are the kinds of text?

• Poetic, narrative, informational, and persuasive

• What are some purposes for writing?

What have we learned?

• What are the kinds of text?

• Poetic, narrative, informational, and persuasive

• What are some purposes for writing?

• To inform, persuade, and entertain

Can you answer the essential questions?

Essential Questions

• What are the different kinds of text?

• How can knowing the kind of text help me to understand what I read?