1. Kinds of Text

2. Essential Questions What are the different kinds of text?
How can knowing the kind of text help me to understand what I read?

3. Narrative Text Narrative text is text that is written to tell a story
Narrative text includes fiction text, like stories
Narrative text also includes some kinds of nonfiction, like biographies

4. Narrative Text
Can you think of any examples of narrative text that we have read this year?

5. Narrative Text
Narrative text includes story elements such as characters, setting, plot, theme, and conflict
Narratives have a beginning, a middle, and an end

6. Poetic Text Poetic text is…well, poetry!
Poetic text looks different from narratives
What are some elements of poetic text?

7. Poetic Text
Poetic text often uses sound devices such as rhyme and alliteration
Poetic text also uses figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification

8. Informational Text Informational text is written to give information
Informational text includes directions, articles, and other texts written to explain new ideas

9. Informational Text
Informational text includes text features like headings, titles, captions, photographs, diagrams, and so forth

10. Informational Text
Some kinds of informational text can be called EXPOSITORY text
Expository text is informational text that is written using a text structure like compare and contrast, description, cause and effect, or so on

11. Persuasive Text
Persuasive text is text written to persuade someone to do something or think in a certain way

12. Persuasive Text
Persuasive text includes advertisements, editorials, and reviews

13. Kinds of Text So far, we have talked about these kinds of text:
Narrative
Poetic
Informational
Persuasive

14. Let’s Review! Which kind of text is written to give information?
Informational text

15. Let’s Review!
What kind of text is a fairy tale?
Narrative

16. Let’s Review!
If you are reading an advertisement for new sneakers, what kind of text are you reading?
Persuasive

17. A look at some different texts
On the next few slides, you will see some different texts
Can you identify the kind of text for each?

18. What kind of text? This is an example of poetic text
Can you find the simile?
What about the alliteration?
snow falls
like a layer of icing
coating the world
in soft, silent sweetness

19. What kind of text? This is an example of poetic text
Can you find the simile?
What about the alliteration?
snow falls
like a layer of icing
coating the world
in soft, silent sweetness

20. What kind of text? Notice how this poem is written in short lines
What is it about?
snow falls
like a layer of icing
coating the world
in soft, silent sweetness

21. What kind of text? This text is informational text
It is written to give information
Notice that it has a title and a heading
All About Snowflakes
Snowflakes are beautiful crystals. They form when tiny cloud droplets freeze.
Kinds of snowflakes
Did you know that there are different kinds of snowflakes? Depending on what it is like inside the cloud, snowflakes can be flat plates or long columns.

22. What kind of text? How does this text inform the reader?
What is the topic?
All About Snowflakes
Snowflakes are beautiful crystals. They form when tiny cloud droplets freeze.
Kinds of snowflakes
Did you know that there are different kinds of snowflakes? Depending on what it is like inside the cloud, snowflakes can be flat plates or long columns.

23. What kind of text? This text is persuasive text.
Buy a new Snowsmart shovel!
Don’t let winter get you down. With a new Snowsmart shovel, you can clear your driveway in half the time. Buy one today! Supplies are limited—don’t wait!
Recommended by snow removal experts nationwide
This text is persuasive text.
What is it trying to persuade readers to do?
What persuasive tricks do you see?

24. What kind of text? This is an example of narrative text
Sandy looked out her window. The ground was coated in white! “I hope that we don’t have school today!” she exclaimed, jumping out of bed.
“Time to shovel the driveway!” her brother announced, coming into the room. “Hurry up!”
This is an example of narrative text
Can you find the dialogue?
Who are the characters?
What is the setting?

25. What we’ve learned So far, we’ve learned about different kinds of text
But why do authors write these texts?
What is the author’s purpose?

26. Author’s Purpose
Authors write these kinds of text for three main purposes
TO INFORM
TO PERSUADE
TO ENTERTAIN

27. Author’s Purpose
What is the purpose of informational text?
To inform

28. Author’s Purpose
What is the purpose of persuasive text?
To persuade

29. Author’s Purpose Those were easy!
But what is the purpose of narrative text?
Narrative text and poetic text are both written to entertain

30. A question to think about
Can we combine the different kinds of text?
For example, could a poem give information?
Could persuasive text include alliteration?

31. A question to think about
The answer is yes—in a way
For example, there are poems that tell stories
These are called narrative poems
The purpose of these poems is still to entertain

32. A question to think about
What about advertisements?
Advertisements often do include sound devices like alliteration and rhyme
But even tough an ad may look like a poem, the purpose is still to persuade

33. A question to think about
What about advertisements?
Advertisements also give information about a product—for example, they tell where to find the product, and how much it costs

34. A question to think about
What is the author’s purpose—to inform, or to persuade?
To answer this question, think about what the text is MOSTLY doing

35. A question to think about
What is the author’s purpose—to inform, or to persuade?
While there is information, an advertisement is MOSTLY written to persuade

36. Why is it important to know the author’s purpose?
When we know the author’s purpose, we can use the right strategies to read the text
It’s like building a shelf—we want to use the right tools for the job!

37. Informational Text
When we read this text, we need to find and use the text features
The purpose of this text is to inform
We’d better pay attention to the text, read slowly, and think about what we’re learning

38. Persuasive Text The purpose of this text is to persuade
As we read this text, we need to make sure that we understand what the author is trying to persuade us to do
We also need to look out for sneaky persuasive tricks

39. Narrative and Poetic Text
The purpose of this text is to entertain
As you read narrative text, look for story elements like character, plot, and setting
As you read poetry, look for figurative language like personification and similes

40. What have we learned? What are the kinds of text?
What are some purposes for writing?

41. What have we learned? What are the kinds of text?
Poetic, narrative, informational, and persuasive
What are some purposes for writing?

42. What have we learned? What are the kinds of text?
Poetic, narrative, informational, and persuasive
What are some purposes for writing?
To inform, persuade, and entertain

43. Can you answer the essential questions?

44. Essential Questions What are the different kinds of text?
How can knowing the kind of text help me to understand what I read?

45. By E. Kissner