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Identify the purpose, key

structural and language


features of various types of
informational/factual text
Informational or Factual Text
Its primary purpose is to inform, instruct or
persuade the readers and to express
information about arts, sciences, and social
studies. Informational texts ranges from
newspapers, magazines, digital information
to nonfiction textbooks and other reference
materials.
Informational or factual texts
These include a wide range of non-fiction,
historical, scientific and technical texts,
including autobiographies and biographies,
books, directions, forms and information
displayed in graphs, charts or maps and
digital resources on a range of topics.
Distinguish text-types according to
purpose and language features
-Enumeration - this text type has a
listing of important points on the text. It
focuses on listing facts, characteristics
or features. It uses signal words like,
first of all, secondly, then, in fact, for
Let’s practice. It’s your turn to
identify or recognize the
structure of the
ENUMERATION text-type by
answering YES or NO.
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