| Text type family |
Text types |
Purpose |
Curriculum area |
| Storytelling |
Literary description |
to describe the characteristic features of an often imagined person, place or object |
English, Creative Arts |
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Recount
personal recount
literary recount
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to recount a sequence of events (without complication) and to share a personal response to those events |
| Narrative |
to narrate a sequence of unusual or unexpected complicating events, and their resolution, and to evaluate the events and their outcome (sub-types include: exemplum, anecdote and moral tale or fable) |
| News story |
to chronicle a 'newsworthy' event |
English, Science, History, Design and Technology, Geography, Creative Arts, Health and PE |
| Responding |
Personal response |
to describe and respond personally to a culturally significant work or performance |
English, Creative Arts, Health and PE |
| Review |
to analyse and evaluate a culturally significant work or performance |
English, Creative Arts, Design and Technology |
| Character analysis |
to analyse and evaluate a character in a culturally significant work |
| Interpretation |
to interpret the theme or message of a culturally significant work |
| Critical response |
to analyse and challenge the message and values of a culturally significant work |
| Procedural |
Procedure |
to instruct someone how to do something through a sequence of steps, for example, a recipe or experiment |
Classroom management, Mathematics, Science, Creative Arts, Design and Technology, Health and PE |
| Protocol |
to list off conditions under which something is to be done, for example, rules, warnings and laws |
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| Procedural recount/design brief |
to record the steps taken to carry out a procedure, including the aim, method, outcome and evaluation of the procedure |
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| Chronicling |
Factual recount |
to document a sequence of events to record what happened and to evaluate their significance, for example, a field trip, excursion, sporting event or classroom activity |
Science, Mathematics, Geography, History, Creative Arts, Health and PE |
| Biographical recount |
to recount the significant events and stages of a person's life before making a judgement |
| Autobiographical recount |
to recount the significant events of one's own life |
| Historical recount |
to recount events from the past at particular stages in history before making a judgement or drawing a conclusion |
| Historical account |
to account for and explain historical events at particular stages in history before making a judgment or drawing a conclusion |
| Reporting |
Factual description |
to describe the characteristic features of particular people, places of objects |
Science, Geography, History, Design and Technology, Creative Arts, Health and PE |
| Descriptive report |
to classify, describe and provide generalised information about a phenomenon, whether natural, synthetic or social |
| Classifying report |
describe the types of a class of things |
| Explaining |
Sequential explanation |
to explain in a sequence the phases of a process to reveal how the process occurs, for example, the life cycle of a butterfly |
Science, Mathematics, Geography, History, Design and Technology, Health and PE |
| Causal explanation |
to explain in a sequence the phases of a process |
| to reveal why the process occurs, including cause and effect |
| Factorial explanation |
to explain the multiple causes of one outcome |
| Consequential explanation |
to explain the multiple outcomes or effects of one phenomenon |
| Persuading |
Exposition (analytical) |
to argue for a particular point of view on an issue (persuading that) |
English, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Science, Health and PE |
| Exposition (hortatory) |
to argue that a particular action should be taken (persuading to) |
| Discussion |
to discuss two or more points of view or a range of perspectives on an issue, before making a judgement or recommendation |
| Challenge |
to argue against a point of view |