Informative Text

What is the purpose of an informative text ?

• To entertain

• To give information

• To persuade

• To give answers

What is the structure of an information report?

• Introduction, series of descriptive paragraphs and conclusion

• Series of descriptive paragraphs , conclusion and introduction

• introduction, conclusion and series of descriptive paragraphs

What is the purpose of the Introduction in an information report?

• to give factual information about the the subject

• to summarise the text

• to make a general statement and classify the subject.

• all of the above

The purpose of the description is to …

• write a series of funny paragraphs about the subject

• to introduce what you are writing about

• to summarise the whole text

• to write a series factual paragraphs about the subject

Which of the following is NOT an informative text

• James and the Giant Peach

• A newspaper article

• A book about birds

• instructions on how to make something

What is the purpose of the conclusion ?

• to give an overview of what the text is about

• to describe the subject of the report

• to summarise the text

This is an example of an informative text

• True

• False

This is an example of an informative text

• True

• False

This is an example of an informative text

• True

• False

What is a 'hybrid' text ?

• a text with lots of pictures

• a text made up or two or more different text types

• a text with only factual information

• a text that teaches a lesson