The Five Text Types That Will Be Taught Throughout the Year.

In Kansas, there are five types of text that are taught in the classroom.

1. Narrative Text: also known as a story. The most common narrative text is Charlotte’s Web. Ther are five key parts to a narrative text:

o Setting: when and where the story takes place.
o Characters: the people or personified animals who are involved in the story.
o Goals: are set by one or more of the characters in the story.
o Attempts: are the events that the characters go through to overcome conflict, reach their goals, and solve their problems.
o Conclusion: is what happens in the end; the character either reaches their goal or does not reach their goal.

2. Expository Text: also known as informational or factual book. Information about the 50 states or animals would be an example of an expository text.

3. Technical Text: can range from an instructional manual, a recipe, a science experiment, or a how to.

4. Persuasive Text: is text used to convince others into believing or doing something different. They are things such as editorials, and advertisements in the newspaper.

5. Poetry: there are many forms of poetry, here is an example of a poem.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.