GENRE

NARRATIVE

PURPOSE
To entertain the reader
OR

TYPE
Short stories, Fables, Folk tales
Plays, Legends, Myths,
Ballads

To provide entertainment and to make

the audience think about an issue, teach
them a lesson, or excite their emotions.
REPORT

To present information about a person,

thing or place

Reference articles, lecture,

scientific articles, textbooks

OR
To classify and/or describe using facts
about the subjects parts, behavior and
qualities.
OR
To describe the way things are, with
reference to a range of natural,
manmade and social phenomena in our
environment.
RECOUNT

To tell events in the time order that have

happened
OR

Diaries, letters, journals,

biographies, newspaper reports,
historical recount, autobiographies,
incident reports.

To retell events for the purpose of

informing or entertaining.
OR
To provide the audience with a
description of what occurred and when it
occurred
OR
To retell ones past experience.
PROCEDURE

To give instructions about how to do

something
OR
To explain how to do something, how to
make something or how to get
somewhere.
OR
To describe how something is
accomplished through a sequence of
actions or steps.

Recipes, instructional manuals,

experiment reports, spoken
directions

DESCRIPTIV
E

To describe a particular person, place or

thing

Certain thing, person, animal, or

place

OR
To describe about certain person,
animal or thing (a living or non-living
thing)
OR
To tell about the subject by describing its
features without including personal
opinions.

2. SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXT

A functional text is a piece of writing that communicates something from an individual or
group to another.
TYPES OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL
TEXT
Caution

PURPOSE
To remind
Depends on the text
To congratulate /To give warm wishes

Greeting card
Short message

To inform/to invite/to ask for apology,

ect.
Depends on the text
To invite ./To ask someone to come..

Invitation
To announce /to make known...
Announcement
To inform
Label
To promote, to advertise
Advertisement
Depends on the text
Letter