Program Design
Identify Text Forms and General Purpose
p. 148-149
Knowledge about the Features and Purposes of Various Types of Texts
Students need opportunities to become familiar with the features and
purposes of various types of text and their social and cultural contexts
and traditions. Students also need to know how to use this informationas they engage in various language endeavours.
Areas of inquiry will include
• purpose: to plan, inform, explain, entertain, express opinion/
emotion, compare/contrast, persuade, describe, experience imaginatively,
and formulate hypotheses
• genre/form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, fairy tales, cumulative
tales, wordless books, circular tales, legends, fables, novels,
magazine articles, news reports, encyclopedia entries, films, documentaries,
etc.
• structure: approaches to organizing texts, particular structural
patterns, characteristics and conventions of specific genres and
forms
p.220
Many of the texts used at the primary level are multimodal; that is, they
combine print, images and graphic design, involving students in both reading
and viewing. Examples of such texts are picture books, magazines, graphs,
charts, maps, and environmental print.
Other types of texts students need to experience tend to be associated more
with viewing, although many of them also involve reading:
• videos, films, and TV and radio shows (both fictional and factual)
• displays (e.g., art and other museum artifacts, wild life, science)
• computer-based multimedia texts (both fictional and factual—texts
combining written words, images and sounds, e.g., CD-ROM Encyclopedia)
• computer-based problem-solving texts (e.g., adventure games)
• electronic databases
Knowledge about the Features and Purposes of Various Types of Texts
Students need opportunities to become familiar with the features and
purposes of various types of text and their social and cultural contexts
and traditions. Students also need to know how to use this informationas they engage in various language endeavours.
Areas of inquiry will include
• purpose: to plan, inform, explain, entertain, express opinion/
emotion, compare/contrast, persuade, describe, experience imaginatively,
and formulate hypotheses
• genre/form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, fairy tales, cumulative
tales, wordless books, circular tales, legends, fables, novels,
magazine articles, news reports, encyclopedia entries, films, documentaries,
etc.
• structure: approaches to organizing texts, particular structural
patterns, characteristics and conventions of specific genres and
forms
p.220
Many of the texts used at the primary level are multimodal; that is, they
combine print, images and graphic design, involving students in both reading
and viewing. Examples of such texts are picture books, magazines, graphs,
charts, maps, and environmental print.
Other types of texts students need to experience tend to be associated more
with viewing, although many of them also involve reading:
• videos, films, and TV and radio shows (both fictional and factual)
• displays (e.g., art and other museum artifacts, wild life, science)
• computer-based multimedia texts (both fictional and factual—texts
combining written words, images and sounds, e.g., CD-ROM Encyclopedia)
• computer-based problem-solving texts (e.g., adventure games)
• electronic databases