Text Types and Other English Concepts

I'll be adding to this page when I can, and I'll also put everything in alphabetical order.
Hope it helps.

INFORMATION REPORT 

An information report is to tell the reader information about a topic, e.g. ducks. 
  • The reader will need to know what you are talking about (title)
  • Description
  • If your report is about something alive:– where does it live, what it eats, its habits, breeding, life cycle
  • Start with an introduction and use sub headings - you could even put the  heading in the form of a question e.g What do ducks eat?
  • Use a variety of sentences to make your report interesting

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

 Here are some great links to explain narrative structure
6-8 year old narrative structure cards - YouTube

9-12 years narrative structure cards - YouTube

9-12 years narrative poster - YouTube




NOUNS
Nouns are names of people, places or things. There are different types of nouns.
PROCEDURAL TEXT
When cooking, playing a game, making something or following directions, these are great opportunities to incidentally talk to your child about procedural text.

Structure of a Procedural Text
Procedures tell you how to do something.
  • Title gives the goal - what you are trying to do
  • List of materials or ingredients or rules
  • Steps are presented in order
The first word of each step will usually be a verb (doing word) like cut, stir, pour, roll, turn etc.


VERBS
A doing word. 
Something one can do - like run, jump, cut, draw, play, skip.......


Happy Writing
 Mrs Hale