Overview of genres according to categories in the Australian Curriculum: English


 Investigating model texts for learning  by Sally Humphrey and Emma Vale

 

Categories  Imaginative Informative Persuasive
Genres in families

Recount
- personal
- literary

Narrative

Description
- literary

 Factual recount
- autobiography
biography
historical

Procedural
- protocol
- procedure
- procedural recount

Information report
- classifying
- descriptive
- comparative

Explanation
- sequential
- causal
- factorial
- consequential

 Response
- book review

Report
- promotional (for example,
tourist brochure)

Argument
- exposition (one-sided)
   - analytical
   - hortatory
discussion (two-sided)
 Macrogenres 
(including genres which may  
be combined)
  Narrative (with embedded  
literary description)

 Investigation
- procedure
- +procedural recount
- + explanation/discussion  

Instructions
- procedure
- + protocols

  Civic persuasion
- story
- + hortatory exposition

 

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