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Procedural recount
Example: documentaries
Information report
Example: facts about whales
factual recount
Example: historical report
Procedures
Example: recipes
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a behavioral non-interactive event restricted to your experience with understanding its characteristics and its meaning or information as its singular purpose
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a written form of communication information
Persuasive texts
are factual text types that give a point of view and used to influence and persuade others.
Information report
classifies, describes and gives factual information about people, animals, things or phenomena.
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consists sentences which communicate information
factual description
describes a place or thing using facts.
literary description
describes people, characters, places, events and things in an imaginative way. Example: description of a character
Literary texts
entertain or elicit an emotional response by using language to create mental images.
explanation
explains how or why something happens.
personal response
gives a personal opinion on a novel, play or film, referring to parts within the passage
discussion
gives different points of view in order to make an informed decision
Procedures
gives instructions on how to make or do something.
exposition
gives reasons for a point of view to try and convince others of it.
Factual texts
inform, instruct or persuade by giving facts and information.
factual description
landscape description
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non-interactive in nature.
literary recount
retells events from novels, plays, films, and personal experiences to entertain others
factual recount
retells events which have already happened in time order.
review
summarizes, analyses, and assesses the appeal of a novel, play or film, to a broader audience.
narrative
tells a story using a series of events.
Procedural recount
tells how something was made or done in time order and with accuracy