Copy of Types of text
Explanation
Information report
Advises or tells you
about something.
Makes clear how or
why things are, or
how things work.
Tells what
happened.
Recount
Informative
Presents information
and opinions about more
than one side of an issue.
Exposition
Response
Describes an entire
class of things, wether
natural or made.
Procedure
Persuasive
Constructed
to make you
do something
Discussion
Poetry
Iinstructs or
tells you how to
do something.
Details the
characteristics features
of a particular thing.
Tells a story.
Narrative
Description
Puts towards
an argument or a
particular point of view.
Has many purposes
and forms.
Used to summarise,
analyze and respond to
literary texts. May be
a review or personal.