Reading strategies: Text types and purposes

• Engels
• WO
• Studiejaar 6

Text types

Objectives:
Cito toets bij het eindexamen jouw kennis over tekststructuur

 A few examples of 

different text types

The vast majority can be split into 2 broad categories. 

Two main categories:

Some texts sit in both camps e.g., literary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction.

Factual texts you may find in a CITO final exam

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instruction

leaflet

letter

interview

review

newspaper article

report

speech

statement

literary texts you may find in a CITO final exam

narrative

tale, short story or an excerpt from a novel

(from different genres: science fiction, suspense, romantic, horror, dystopian and more)

-part of a- biography

Once more, remember: some texts sit in both camps e.g., literary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction.

Cito will focus on these 4 text purposes: 

• Informative – Writing in which author’s purpose is to inform or explain the subject to the reader.
  
• Persuasive – Writing that states the opinion of the writer and attempts to influence the reader.
  
• Expressive- The writer wants to express his or her feelings, emotions (diary, poem etc.)
• Narrative - The writer tells a story -fact or fiction- to entertain its reader

Purpose and text types at a glance

Answer the questions from text 3

ex 2017

Tekst 3 The case for the cyberdefence

4 A

5 A

6 B 

Answer the questions with text 6 -see next slide-

Time to work on your weektask

ex 2021

tv III

Tekst 6 Sexonomics

17 D

18 A

The next slides are optional. 

Slide 12 provides a simple overview of how to decide on the purpose of a text

slide 14 provides a link to a great overview of literary genres, features and examples (be aware: much more than you need to know for your final exams)

Looking for the writer's purpose? This will help.

Optional:

If you'd like to know more about the characteristics of each genre, go to the following slide and click on the link. It provides you with a most complete guide.

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