Explanation

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Here is the review table for Explanation Text.

Activity1: How would you explain the life cycle of a plant?? 

Activity2: What is your ultimate dream? Explain. 

Activity3: What is your favourite number or word and explain its significance. 

Responses below... :-) 

Plants

Basic parts of plant, flower and their functions.

   

  

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Instructional Text

A set of instructions tell you how to do or make something. 

Some of the examples where you will find instructions are:-

- recipes

- driving directions

- game manual

- sports rules

- advertisements (some)

etc.. 

Activity:

Write a set of instructions to turn a teacher into a frog. Eh hem.... 

Publish it below... Come on.. . I dare you.... hehehhehe 

Non Chronological Report

Key Features of Non Chronological Reports
Purpose: to describe the characteristics of something e.g. “Birds”, “Ancient Greece” Example: an extract from a general encyclopedia
Text Structure ·        Introductory information about what is to be described: who, what, when, where? (overall classification) ·        Non-chronological organisation ·        Description organised according to categories or information ·        Skeleton framework – a spidergram	Language features ·        Present tense (except historical reports) ·        Usually general nouns and pronouns (not particular people or things) ·        Third person writing ·        Factual writing, often involving technical words and phrases.
Common forms of non chronological reports ·        Information leaflet ·        School-project file ·        Encyclopedia entry ·        Magazine article ·        Non-fiction book ·        letter

Activity: Have a go at identifying ALL THE FEATURES of the text below.

Literacy Revision 1

Genre: Playscript

Layout:

• At the start of each scene, the setting is described. 
• Stage Directions are written in parenthesis 
• Speaker/actor is listed on the left of the page
• List of characters in the play is listed in the beginning of the script. 
• The list of characters is called the cast. 
• The words spoken by the character are called dialogues.

Language Features

• Stage directions are always written PRESENT TENSE and in IMPERATIVE verbs (instructional or commanding verbs). 
• ellipsis (...) is often used to show the character is thinking or stuttering. 
• These dialogues do not need speech marks. They do still require punctuations. 

Sample Script

http://www.halfnoteproductions.com/downloads/script-sample.pdf

Activity: 

See if you can identify the layout and language features of the playscript in the document above.