1. Genre forms, text features and structures
Introduction to Reading, Writing and Thinking Processes and Strategies Across Text Types

2. Targets for this session
Classify different texts according to types, genre and genre form.
Recognize the generic features and structures of specific texts.

3. Defining Genre
The term genre has been ordinarily regarded as a literary or artistic category.

4. Main Literary Genres
Genre
Prose
Poetry
Drama

5. Prose is writing that is similar to everyday speech and language
Prose is writing that is similar to everyday speech and language. Its form is based on sentences and paragraphs.
Fiction
Non- fiction
A prose narrative in which situations and characters are invented by the writer.
Examples: novels, novellas, short stories, myths, legends, fables and folktales
Characterized as being real, at least to some degree.
Examples: biographies, essays, autobiographies

6. Poetry consists of language with a strong musical quality in which the words are highly charged with meaning. They also use structural elements such as line length and stanzas.
Lyric poems are highly musical verses that express observations and feelings of a single speaker.
Narrative poems are poems that tell a story.
Epics are long narrative poems, written in dignified style, that celebrate the adventures and achievements of one or more heroic figures of legend, history, or religion.
Ballads are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance.
Free verse is poetry not written in regular rhythmical pattern, or meter.
Sonnets are a form of rhyming lyric poetry with fourteen lines that follow an iambic pentameter rhyme scheme; each line has ten syllables and every other syllable is accented.
Haiku is a special type of poetry from Japan, consists of seventeen syllables arranged in three lines, five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in third.

7. Drama is a story told in dialogue by performers before an audience
Drama is a story told in dialogue by performers before an audience. It includes television and radio plays, and even movies.
In drama, actors make a world come alive before an audience. Like fiction, the elements of drama include character, setting, theme and plot.
Forms of Drama
Comedy is a type of drama that has humorous and has a happy ending.
Tragedy is a drama form in which the character, often a person of dignified or heroic stature, suffers a downfall. The downfall may result from outside forces of from a tragic flaw, a weakness within the character.
A melodrama is a drama form that is full of exciting events and in which the characters and emotions seem to be too exaggerated to be real.
A farce is a funny play for the theatre based on ridiculous and unlikely situations and events.
A historical drama is a play that takes place in the past and is based on real events. In many of these plays, the characters are also based on real historical figures. The dialogue and action, however, are mostly created by the playwright.

8. Defining Texts Origin and Etymology of text
Middle English, from Anglo-French tiste, texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin, texture, context, from texere to weave First Known Use: 14th century
Wide range of definition
Depends on the field or area it is associated
Provides content, context and texture

9. Types of Text
Text Types
Literary
Informational

10. Literary Texts Short stories Novels Poems Drama Biographies Essays
Autobiographies

11. Informational Texts provide factual information.
Consumer documents are printed materials that accompany products and services. They usually provide information about the use, care, operation, or assembly of the product or service they accompany.
Public documents are documents written for the public to provide information that is of public interest or concern.
Workplace documents are materials that are produced or used within a workplace. Their purpose is to aid in the functioning of a business.
Academic texts like textbooks are materials used in school. Their purpose is to provide information needed to educate the students.
Journalistic texts like newspaper articles provide readers with timely news, opinions and advertisements

12. Consumer Documents Applications Contracts Warranties Manuals
Instructions
Labels
Brochures
Schedules

13. Public Documents Government documents Speeches Signs
Rules and Regulations
Posters

14. Workplace documents
Manuals
Memos
Reports
Proposals
Action Plan

15. Academic Texts Thesis Journal Articles Encyclopedias Research Reports
Test Papers

16. Journalistic Texts Newspaper Magazine Websites of Media Orgs
Surveys/ Polls
Social Media Accounts

17. Text Features are design elements of a text that indicate its organizational structure or make its key ideas and information understandable.
Text structures are patterns of organization or development writers use in organizing their writing for a specific purpose.
The Universe of Texts

18. Small Group Work (SGW)
Examine the sample text to deduce the different text features.
Analyze also the text structure.

19. Types of Text Features Text features Body (Meat) Signposts
Headings /subheadings
Boldface and Italic Type
Graphic Aids or Organizers
Photos
Illustrations
Bulleted and numbered lists, outline
Questions
Caption

20. Types of Organizational Patterns
Text Structures
Cause-effect
Compare and contrast
Sequence/ Time
Main Idea and Details
Spatial Order
Problem- Solution

21. Point for Reflective Thinking:
Freedom abounds with the limitless number of texts around us. Is this good or bad?

22. Assignment: Reflection Log No. 1
Freedom abounds with the limitless number of texts around us. Is this good or bad?
Expound on the statement by discussing two important issues that may be sourced out from the said statement. Employ the skillful use of various text structures.
Presentation of outputs is due for the next session.