Comparing Text Types (Advanced)
Objective
The primary objective of this advanced worksheet is to develop a nuanced understanding of how different text types influence the delivery and impact of a message. It aims to teach students to match specific communicative goals—such as persuading, informing, or advocating—with the most effective linguistic structure, tone, and format.
Content and Methods
- Content: The worksheet explores complex issues.
- It provides three distinct mentor texts for analysis.
- Methods: The material uses a categorization task where students must select the most suitable text type for various scenarios, such as choosing between an opinion column or a formal proposal.
- It employs a structural analysis approach using a comparison table to evaluate differences in structure, tone, audience, and purpose across genres.
- The worksheet includes evidence-based questions requiring students to find proof within the texts to explain why specific formats are effective.
- A final comparative writing task requires a detailed analysis of suitability and commonalities between text types.
Competencies
- Genre Awareness: Identifying and marking specific markers for different text types like articles, letters, and speeches.
- Critical Analysis: Evaluating how the format (such as an article's use of data) impacts the presentation of a topic compared to more personal formats like letters.
- Rhetorical Knowledge: Understanding the effectiveness of direct engagement and rhetorical devices within a speech format.
- Communication Strategy: Determining how to use formal language and direct appeals to authority figures to create urgency in a letter.
Target Group and Level
- Grade 10 and above
Main Features of a Literary Text Type
Learners create profiles for specific literary text types
Content and methods:
Students read an informative text about the given text type and extract information.
Competencies:
- reading comprehension
- summarizing
Target group and level:
Middle school
Complex Source Integration - Practice evidence-based writing
Practice writing a report or essay based on different sources. Practice synthesizing, evidence-based writing and citing sources.
The students know how to integrate a variety of sources into their writing.
Content and Methodology: This teaching material introduces different types of source integration and provides exercises and information on citing sources correctly. In the end, students put what they've learnt into practice.
Skills:
- reading comprehension
- knowledge transfer
- academic writing
Target Audience and Level: Grade 10 and higher
