1. Nonfiction Procedural Text
What is it?

2. What is Procedural Text?
Tells someone how to do or make something
Examples:
recipes, craft instructions, games, rules, science experiments

3. What do you already know?
Recipes
Tells us how to make/do/play something
Gives us steps
Gives us materials
Found in games
Found in products that you need to put together (i.e. a new shelf)

4. What are the features/characteristics?
Title
Goal – what are you going to make, play, or build?
Materials – what do you need to reach goal?
Method – the steps involved to complete goal (in order)
Evaluation – concluding statement to say you reached your goal

5. Language Features Procedural Text uses action verbs
uses signal words to do with time (first, next, then)
uses precise vocabulary that connects to goal (cooking words for recipe)

6. Let’s Look at an Example…
Banana Shake
Here’s a quick and easy recipe to make a smooth, creamy and delicious treat – a banana shake!
Ingredients:
1 banana 2 bowls
1 cup of milk 1 fork, 1 spoon
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
Method:
First, pour the milk into 1 bowl
Next, peel the banana and mash it with the fork in the other bowl.
Then, add the banana to the milk
Add the ice cream.
Next, beat the mixture with spoon until it is smooth.
Finally, pour mixture into glass.
Clean up dishes.
Now you have a yummy smooth banana shake to enjoy with your favorite meal or snack!

7. How will you enjoy your banana shake?

8. Answer the following questions on your notebook paper.
11. Who is the audience for this text? 12. What is the purpose of a procedural text? 13. What is the procedural text in a game called? 14. List a verb from the recipe. 15. List another verb from the recipe. 16. List another verb from the recipe. 17. What do the graphic aids represent? 18. What does the caption say for the graphic aid? 19. What ingredient do you use in step #4? 20. What could you write a procedural text for?