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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