Text Types

Text Types

A text type (as defined by the Board of Studies in 2011)* decscribes text types as writing that is done for a number of differnt purposes in the school environment. This includes factual and fictional types of writing.

Providing additional structure/ scafffolding for text type production, can assist a child with a language or literacy difficulty, to produce a more informative and interesting text type.

In addition to written text types, are oral text types. These include recounting an event, creative story telling and providing an explanation for how something is to be done.

* Taken from www.schoolatoz.com.au (2011)