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    This document discusses informational/factual texts. It defines informational texts as nonfiction writing intended to inform readers about a specific topic, typically found in magazines, textbooks, biographies, and manuals. The purpose of informational texts is to make an argument, inform, or tell a story. There are five main structures for informational texts: description, sequence/instruction/process, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. Each structure is explained, including examples and language features that indicate the structure being used.

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    This document discusses informational/factual texts. It defines informational texts as nonfiction writing intended to inform readers about a specific topic, typically found in magazines, textbooks, biographies, and manuals. The purpose of informational texts is to make an argument, inform, or tell a story. There are five main structures for informational texts: description, sequence/instruction/process, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. Each structure is explained, including examples and language features that indicate the structure being used.

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    This document discusses informational/factual texts. It defines informational texts as nonfiction writing intended to inform readers about a specific topic, typically found in magazines, textbooks, biographies, and manuals. The purpose of informational texts is to make an argument, inform, or tell a story. There are five main structures for informational texts: description, sequence/instruction/process, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. Each structure is explained, including examples and language features that indicate the structure being used.

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    Informational/Factual Texts

    LEARNING TARGET/S:
    ● Identify the purpose, different
    structures, and language features of
    various types of
    informational/factual texts.
    WHAT ARE INFORMATIONAL/FACTUAL
    TEXTS?

    Informational texts or factual texts are texts that build


    upon our prior knowledge or feed us with information we
    do not know. Informational text is nonfiction writing,
    written with the intention of informing the reader about a
    specific topic. It is typically found in magazines, science
    or history books, autobiographies, and instruction manuals.
    PURPOSE OF
    INFORMATIONAL/FACTUAL
    TEXTS:

    ● To make an argument
    ● to inform
    ● to tell a story
    FIVE TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL/FACTUAL TEXT
    STRUCTURES:
    1. DESCRIPTION -Texts that use this structure simply describe
    something. With few exceptions, these texts also present plenty of
    details about what they're describing.

    A TEXT USING THIS STRUCTURE MIGHT ALSO:


    ● Tell you why something is being described
    ● tell you why the described topic is important
    ● provide examples of the described topic(s)
    Descriptive texts are everywhere—in
    novels, works of literary nonfiction, news
    articles, science textbooks—which makes
    sense because the entire point of
    description is to present information.
    2. SEQUENCE/INSTRUCTION/PROCESS
    This text structure covers a few purposes:

    ● sequential instructions (step 1, step 2, step 3; do this, then do that,


    and finally do this)
    ● chronological events (this happened, then this happened, then this
    happened, etc.)
    ● Arguments that use evidence to support a claim (presenting
    evidence from least to most convincing)

    when reading or writing a text with this structure, order is key. Texts
    that use this format usually don't present any event or instruction out
    of order, as doing so would make its directions more difficult to follow.
    Here is a list of some words and phrases that indicate a text
    follows the sequence/instruction/process text structure:
    4. COMPARE/CONTRAST
    This text structure involves a comparison involving multiple
    things, revealing how they are similar and how they are
    different.

    Contrasting two or more things doesn't necessarily mean


    identifying them as either good or bad. Comparisons simply
    relay the differences; therefore, one thing could have both
    positive and negative traits.

    Here is a non-exhaustive list of words and phrases that


    indicate a text follows the compare/contrast text structure:
    5. PROBLEM/SOLUTION

    THIS TEXT STRUCTURE INVOLVES TWO PARTS:


    ● The author identifies a problem
    ● the author details a solution to this problem.

    Problem/solution can be a very complex text structure, as


    it necessitates the use of the other four structures, too.
    Being able to understand and analyze the other four
    structures is essential to being able to examine
    problem/solution effectively.
    Let’s have an
    ACTIVITY……
    Assignmen
    t:
    THANK YOU 

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