Reading A Range Of Text Types
Overview
Before you have read a word of the extract properly, you can already know a great deal about it. Prose does not arrive from nowhere: it arrives as a review, a speech, a letter home, an obituary, a page of somebody's journal, and each of those carries a set of habits it can barely help. Recognising the kind of text in front of you is the cheapest reading skill there is, and the one that most reliably tells you where the marks are hiding.
This note teaches identification and prediction. You will learn the tells that give each text type away in its first two sentences, what each type is trying to do to its reader, where its most analysable writing tends to sit, and what to do when an extract turns out to be two things at once.
Objectives
- Read a wide range of texts including prose and literary non-fiction such as autobiography, letters, obituaries and travel writing
- Read fiction, journalism (articles and reviews), speeches, journals and reference book extracts
Lesson Note
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- Which of these is named in the specification as a text type that will NOT form part of the assessment? A) Obituary B) Advertisement C) Reference book extract D) Journal Answer: B
- An extract is written in the present tense, uses initials instead of names, and does not explain who those people are. Which text type is it most likely to be? A) Autobiography B) Obituary C) Journal or diary D) Review Answer: C
- Which text type is defined by the presence of a double perspective, in which an older narrator judges a younger self? A) Diary B) Autobiography C) Reference extract D) Speech Answer: B
- Which of these is named in the specification as a form students may be asked to write in for the Section B directed writing task? A) Obituary B) Diary entry C) Contribution to a website D) Reference book entry Answer: C
- An extract opens with direct address to people in a hall, repeats a phrase twice, and refers to the occasion. What does this predict about its patterning? A) It will be visual, relying on paragraph shape B) It will be audible, built for listeners rather than readers C) It will avoid repetition in favour of precision D) It will withhold its purpose until the end Answer: B
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