SAINT ANTHONY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

San Francisco, Mabalacat City, Pampanga

Department of Basic Education

Grade School

English 5

Lesson 16 : Summarizing Various Text Types Based on Elements

Text types are forms of writing having a variety of purposes, using different forms and standards of
composition. Generally, text types are categorized as; factual and literary. Within these are many more
specifically defined texts types.

Factual or nonfiction text types inform the readers or convey information about a particular subject or topic.
They give useful information and focus on truths and realities. Examples of factual texts are news reports,
instruction manuals, records of history, procedure, recipes, information about real-people or life situations, legal
documents, and articles in academic journals.

Literary or fiction text types include such types as poetry, narrative, or personal response. Its purpose is to
entertain, elicit an emotional response or engage the reader by using creative language and imagery by using
language to create mental images. Some good examples of literary texts include novels, short stories, and
poetry.

Identify the following text types whether it is factual or literary.

1. Its main purpose is to entertain readers.

2. It teaches readers about facts and valid information.
3. It is usually a made-up story with characters who may be like real people or imaginary.
4. It has facts that can be checked and proven.
5. Its stories are about real people and happenings like what’s on the news.

Read the passage. Then, in your paper, answer the questions that follow.
For you to be able to summarize, first, you must read the text carefully and find out what’s more important.
Then, identify the various elements, find the main ideas, and supporting ideas. This implies that you are
thinking and trying to understand what you have read. Finally, you must write down those ideas using your own
understanding in a few sentences or a paragraph.

You may go back to the passage whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers.

1. Is summarizing done only with stories?

2. How can you use your summarizing skills?
3. Why some are having difficulty in learning science and history?
4. What does the research say about writing things down?
5. What is the process of summarizing mentioned in the passage?
6. As you read, what are you going to do so you can have something to go back and define
or explain later?
7. What are the steps for you to summarize?
8. What would be the best title for the passage?
a. Difficulties in Summarizing
b. Learning to Summarize Science and History
c. Summarizing; Its Importance and Processes
d. The Meaning of Summary
Summarizing allows you to verify that you understood accurately the information conveyed by the writer. There
are many different types of texts depending on their purpose, structure, and language features. The narrative text
is one of the most commonly used classification text materials is that one based on the text’s purpose and
meaning.

Now, that you can already differentiate factual from a literary text, let us give more focus on the literary
narrative texts, poems, and their elements.

A narrative text is a type of literary text that entertains, informs, or instructs readers by telling a story.

Narrative texts can be either imaginary or real-life. Fictional narratives include picture books, cartoons,
mystery, fantasy, fairy tales, novels, science fiction, historical fiction, horror or adventure stories, fables, myths,
legends, or plays. Nonfictional narratives may be a biography, autobiography, articles, newspaper reports,
historical writings, diary.

For you to learn more about narrative texts, let us recognize its different elements.
Plot is particularly the part of the story being summarized as it contains the most important details. This is the
storyline. The term plot refers to the writer's creation of a plot or devising and ordering the story events. Plot
has several parts.
Let’s discuss briefly what is seen on each part.