What are the two major types of writing?

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What are the two major types of writing?

• Narrative
• Expository

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Narrative vs. Expository
Type of Text Purpose Key Elements Examples
Narrative (fictional) tells or narrates a fictional story plot, characters, setting, theme, atmosphere descriptive, narrative, and dialogue paragraphs sometimes illustrations short story, novel, play, some poetry, picture books
Expository (factual) exposes or presents factual material often contains sub-topics (categories of information) with supporting details 5WH contains headings, illustrations with captions, charts, maps, graphs specialized vocabulary Science text documentary, biography, encyclopedia, newspaper/ magazine article Internet documents
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All About Reading

• What is reading?
• How do people learn to read?
• What is a good reader?
• What are some of the strategies that readers use?
• Make a list of several reasons people enjoy
  reading.
• Why do you think some people do not enjoy
  reading?
• Make a list of 5 school-related reading
  materials. Make a list of 5 everyday reading
  materials.
• What are your favourite reading materials? What
  are some of the favourite books you have read?
• What do we mean by the term text? What are some
  examples of text?

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Reading Is ...

• an interactive process that involves continuous
  interaction between a reader and an author
  through the text with the purpose of constructing
  meaning

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EFFECTIVE READERS EXHIBIT VARIOUS BEHAVIOURS

• reread parts when they do not understand
• sound out words
• use chunking to help decode words
• use their knowledge of letter-sound relationships
• use their bank of sight words
• bring their prior or background knowledge
• make educated guesses based on their knowledge

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EFFECTIVE READERS EXHIBIT VARIOUS BEHAVIOURS

• track the text with their fingers
• keep reading beyond a difficult word
• get meaning from the pictures
• examine the texts structure length,
  difficulty, headings, captions,
  charts
• use the context (surrounding words) clues
• use their knowledge of how words are ordered
• visualize or paint pictures from the words they
  read

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EFFECTIVE READERS EXHIBIT VARIOUS BEHAVIOURS

• ask questions of themselves
• summarize
• focus on key words / ideas
• take jot notes
• adjust their reading speed and style according to
  purpose and text type
• seek clarification
• use knowledge of base words and prefixes and
  suffixes
• do a think-aloud

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EFFECTIVE READERS EXHIBIT VARIOUS BEHAVIOURS

• make predictions
• get meaning from punctuation marks
• skip words and reread to clarify
• monitor their comprehension and make adjustments
• make connections
• self-correct
• able to synchronize many behaviours into the
  process of reading
• use a strategy like PETT to choose a text